Word: copernicus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARCHITECTS OF IDEAS - Ernest R. Trattner - Carrick & Evans ($3.75). Beginning with Copernicus and ending with Einstein this book gives lucid explanations of what 15 scientific theoreticians have done for Science. Of more interest than Author Trattner's biographies are his accounts of vulgar errors, wrong theories and bad guesses for which scholars and scientists fought tooth & nail...
...Copernicus will be the subject of the regular University Tuesday evening radio broadcast tonight over the short wave station WIXAL at 8 o'clock...
...records at all," says Dr. Kirkpatrick. "it would seem sensible to try to get it down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
...years, and the abundance after them. Vesalius "De Humani Corperi Fabrica," in the second edition, will be on view; the first, printed at Basel in 1543, is to be shown at the same time in the Print Room in Fogg. The Treasure Room, possesses, however, the earliest printings of Copernicus' revolutionary work on the movements of the planets, of Gesner's natural history, and of Agricola's De Re Metallica, and these will be brought out for the benefit of the public. One of Mercator's early atlases, will be included. From the seventeenth century, works by Galileo, Kepler, Napier...
...mathematics can ever be a cosmic Esperanto. Men-in-the-street, always up on news of the day but behindhand on news of the century, still think in terms of an outmoded scientific materialism, unaware that in the last 40 years there has been the greatest scientific revolution since Copernicus. In this new dispensation "matter began to thin away into the completely spectral thing it has now become. . . . The notion of substance had to be replaced by the notion of behaviour. . . . Determinism has broken down, and the principle of indeterminacy has taken its place. There is great difference of opinion...