The Problem of Life: An Essay in the Origins of Biological ThoughtMacmillan, 1976 - 343 Seiten |
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... Galileo entitled ' Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems ' . At a fairly superficial level this astronomical quarrel was about the ' saving of the appearances ' ( 9 ) . But clearly it had more emotional resonance than this . Otherwise ...
... Galileo entitled ' Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems ' . At a fairly superficial level this astronomical quarrel was about the ' saving of the appearances ' ( 9 ) . But clearly it had more emotional resonance than this . Otherwise ...
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... Galileo sought only to correlate certain ' accidents ' , leaving aside the conventional Scholastic concern with ' essence ' as something ' to be left to a higher science than ours ' ( 5 ) . This is made quite explicit in Galileo's ...
... Galileo sought only to correlate certain ' accidents ' , leaving aside the conventional Scholastic concern with ' essence ' as something ' to be left to a higher science than ours ' ( 5 ) . This is made quite explicit in Galileo's ...
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... Galileo and his con- temporaries resurrected . Behind the observational world of shadowy approximations roughly , but never exactly , this or that , lay an ideal reality . It was to this supra - sensible world that the mathematics could ...
... Galileo and his con- temporaries resurrected . Behind the observational world of shadowy approximations roughly , but never exactly , this or that , lay an ideal reality . It was to this supra - sensible world that the mathematics could ...
Inhalt
Preface | 8 |
The act of imagination | 8 |
The palaeontology of some key words | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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