The Intellectual Tradition of the West: Copernicus to KafkaMorton Donner, Kenneth Eugene Eble, Robert E. Helbling Scott, Foresman, 1967 - Civilization, Western |
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... explained , and that he even suggested an explanation depending on the action of an etherial medium pervading space . But with the wise moderation which is charac- teristic of his investigations , he distinguished such speculations from ...
... explained , and that he even suggested an explanation depending on the action of an etherial medium pervading space . But with the wise moderation which is charac- teristic of his investigations , he distinguished such speculations from ...
Page 456
... explained ? But I will explain it . I will get to the bottom of it ! That is why I have taken up my pen . . . . I , for instance , have a great deal of amour propre . I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf ...
... explained ? But I will explain it . I will get to the bottom of it ! That is why I have taken up my pen . . . . I , for instance , have a great deal of amour propre . I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf ...
Page 555
... explain the outer world in an anthro- pomorphic sense by a multitude of personalities in their own image ; the accidents which they explained superstitiously were thus actions and expressions of persons . In that regard they behaved ...
... explain the outer world in an anthro- pomorphic sense by a multitude of personalities in their own image ; the accidents which they explained superstitiously were thus actions and expressions of persons . In that regard they behaved ...
Contents
Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | 3 |
JOHANNES KEPLER | 18 |
GALILEO GALILEI | 26 |
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