Modern science is the practice of skepticism. ... By the employment of this tool, Galileo was able to demonstrate many fundamental truths of the Universe. ... It is suspected that it was at this point that Galileo began to contemplate the possibilty of heliocentric universe. ... After observing the phases of Venus, it seemed perfectly obvious to Galileo that Aristotle's Earth-centred model of the universe must be false. ... Suddenly, scientists were faced with mathematical calculations, as opposed to simply fervent speculation, in support of the heliocentric theory of the universe. ...

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"It claimed that the rate of fall of an object was determined by its weight, held that matter was constructed out of four possible elements, with different matter containing different combinations of these four, and described the universe as the Greek astronomer Ptolemy had described it, as a static and finite thing in which the Earth occupied the central position, with the sun and planets in revolution and the distant stars inhabiting its farthest edges."...

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As a result, Brecht and his family exiled themselves from the country and took up residence in Denmark, where the first version of the Life of Galileo, then called The Earth Moves, was written, not because Brecht had interest in the man or his research, but because the conflicts Galileo encountered in his lifetime could create a parallel to Brecht's modern world, which was highly influenced and controlled by the Nazis in the late 1930's. In this premiere version of the play, Brecht's Marxist views allow him to outline themes of control, the good for all humanity, freedom of e...

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Both reflect the autonomy of the modern subject, who distances himself from both 'higher' imposed metaphysical values and from those of nature. ... Part I also analyses and interprets the philosophical and theological developments leading to these modern, interrelated conceptions of freedom and epistemology. ... Although Ockham's doctrine is a prelude to the typically modern adage of the 'verum et factum convertuntur', the birthplace of modern science is Nicholas Cusanus' philosophy. Cusanus follows not only Ockham's views on epistemology and creation, but...

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Thus, it is going to be discussed why feminists view as problematic the "scientific" approach that permeates and influences traditional explanations of the social world. ... Smith (1987) states Sociology has been based upon men's social universe. ... Sydie also discusses Weber and Durkheim ideas in relation to the issue of "objectivity" in the social sciences, as their ideas still hold an eminent position in modern social theory. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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