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Is the Discovery of Global Warming Our Greatest Scientific Achievement?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus7/05/2013 4:28:12 pm PDT

re: #9 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Certainly. Copernicus is an interesting historical character, a polyglot who spans the old way of thinking and the new (scientific) age.

Yet it was the empiricism of Galileo, and others, in which the new age found its strength.