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I was interested in the possible effect of the moon and the planets on weather. I obtained, therefore, the heliocentric longitudes of the planets from the Naval Ephemerises and the geocentric longitudes from an Astrological Ephemeris. The mathematics of astrology is simply Geocentric Astronomy. Was it possible that he angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Dance Explosion. The one person most responsible for the dance explosion in America is Nureyev, whose leap through the Iron Curtain 13 years ago triggered a potent curiosity about dance in the public psyche. George Balanchine, doyen of choreographers, pronounced Nureyev oldfashioned, and as usual he was right. For Nureyev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Barefoot Nureyev | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

Heisenberg's and Stent's pessimistic prophecies are widely disputed. Many scientists, in fact, see very drastic changes on the horizon. They frequently invoke a model of scientific advance proposed by Historian Thomas Kuhn, who argues in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions that science is not cumulative, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT MAN-iv: Reaching Beyond the Rational | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Unhappily, lesser theologians forgot this sound advice. When Galileo peered through his telescope four centuries later and saw a heliocentric rather than a geocentric universe, the result was conflict between baffled theologians and fascinated scientists. The Roman Inquisition forced Galileo to "abjure, curse and detest the aforesaid errors," but science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: God & Man at Notre Dame | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

The other point has to do with astrology and numerology as hobbies. I never was interested in numerology. In the case of astrology, I was interested in the possible effect of the moon and the planets on weather. I obtained, therefore, the heliocentric longitudes of the planets from the Naval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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