…people and power. Luther, it later emerged, was not alone. An era of awkward answers had begun. The Prussian astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for instance, had preceded Luther by a couple of decades with his own questioning of the unquestionable. “Those who know that the consensus...
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…tified a tension that has marked the most dramatic leaps of our cosmological imagination. In reading the great works of Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler today, Koestler argued, we are struck as much by their strange unfamiliarity—their embeddedness in the magic or mysticis...
…tified a tension that has marked the most dramatic leaps of our cosmological imagination. In reading the great works of Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler today, Koestler argued, we are struck as much by their strange unfamiliarity—their embeddedness in the magic or mysticis...
instantly accessible to anyone. (Just as Copernicus’ scientific way of
42 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? “We consciously, and through the exercise of will, make decisions between different choices without anyone or anything causing the decision in advance. Others can influence decisions — by offering advice or even holding a gun to our head, but we...