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Switching from Ptolemaic to Copernican Cosmology, … a Dumbing-Down?
0May 17, 2014
by ted lumley
in APN
Representations of the Universe are NOT the Universe.
Pre-enlightenment Europe saw ‘the centre’ as ‘the centre of comings and goings’, and entrances and departures from walled cities had symbolic significance as in birth and death. In the enlightenment, the ‘centre’ became ‘the centre of control’ with visual information flowing inward and controls [and projectiles] radiating outwards. (more…)
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