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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | analyst / artist |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Copernicus argued against the conventional wisdom, promulgated by Claudius Ptolemy in Alexandria around A.D. 150, that the earth was fixed at the middle of the universe. He proposed instead that what could be observed of planetary motion could be explained if the sun was immovable in the middle, with the earth and other planets going around it, the modern understanding of the solar system. But what about Holy Writ, in particular the passage from Joshua in which he commands the sun to stand still and the Lord listens and the sun does stand still in the middle of the sky for almost an entire day? An anonymous notice on the back of Copernicus's title page, addressed "To the Readers Concerning the Hypotheses in this Book," soothingly explains, says Gingerich, that "the ideas are merely hypothetical constructions for predicting the positions of planets and should not be assumed true or even probable." |
| Interests | grace, beauty, symmetry, chaos, complexity, emergence, intuition |
| Favorite Music | Brian Transeau, Nickel Creek, U2, Talvin Singh, Evanescence, Cheb Mami, Porcupine Tree, Incubus, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Imogen Heap, Sting, BT |
| Favorite Books | Leonard Shlain, Brian Green, Paul Davies, Roger Penrose, Marcus Borg, Tom Wright, Brian McLaren, Jim Wallas, Bill McKibben |
If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?
thats why we have a poopsmith