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Page 51
... world picture , not individual mechanical inventions alone , that contributed to the final apotheosis of the contemporary megamachine . The central figure in this galaxy was Galileo Galilei ; 51 3: THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE.
... world picture , not individual mechanical inventions alone , that contributed to the final apotheosis of the contemporary megamachine . The central figure in this galaxy was Galileo Galilei ; 51 3: THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE.
Page 66
... department , the sign of quantity or magnitude would , ideally , become a necessary part of every qualitative judgement . Up to a point , then , the new method was self - validating . It was only 66 THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE.
... department , the sign of quantity or magnitude would , ideally , become a necessary part of every qualitative judgement . Up to a point , then , the new method was self - validating . It was only 66 THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE.
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... picture of " Nature red in tooth and claw " triumphed over Darwin's deeper vision of life , and for long distorted the emerging organic world picture . For reasons too complex to be analyzed here , Darwin's thought had taken on at the ...
... picture of " Nature red in tooth and claw " triumphed over Darwin's deeper vision of life , and for long distorted the emerging organic world picture . For reasons too complex to be analyzed here , Darwin's thought had taken on at the ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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