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yigal_s ([personal profile] yigal_s) wrote2017-03-22 08:43 pm
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rotten physics

Neither Plato nor Aristotle had a profound knowledge of astronomy, but they adopted the geocentric system because it was in better agreement with their philosophical beliefs, and their preference for a pro-slavery society. Their cosmology was subordinated to their political and philosophical ideas: they separated mind from matter and the Earth from the sky.

Masud Chaichian et al, Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics.
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