Word: copernicus
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...this telltale radiation that was apparently detected from Cygnus by the pioneering Uhuru and Copernicus X-ray satellites. A similar partnership of two stars?one of them also a black hole?may be responsible for the X rays that are being picked up from Scorpius...
...atomic bombs." Barrett's narrative of the stages in between is highly speculative. But his hold on elusive ideas is so sure, his erudition so vast and effortless, that a coherent historical design gradually emerges: Aristotle's invention of logic culminated in the scientific discoveries of Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th and 17th centuries, and, two centuries later, in the Nietzschean quest for "mastery over nature by its own instruments." This is the essence of scientific technology...
Since the Fall it has been one rude truth after another. Copernicus elbowed us from celestial stage-center with his observation that the earth revolves around the sun. Darwin opened the closet of evolution to introduce family skeletons that further questioned our singular divinity. Under the damp side of civilized behavior, Freud found the perpetually rutting...
...deception was honestly motivated, and that Ptolemy, like many a modern-day scientist, merely chose to publish the data that best supported his theories. These ideas are outdated anyway. Ptolemy's theories were all aimed at proving that the earth was the center of the universe. By 1543 Copernicus had proved Ptolemy wrong...
What all this comes down to, though, is Emmerich's last three paragraphs. This whole debate is shaping up into one more in the "man is the center of the universe" series. Copernicus got it, Galileo got it, Darwin got it. Anyone who dares to suggest that the universe is not divided into three parts--matter, life, and Man, with Man at the top--is accused of the most dreadful heresy...