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Mentor Books (1956), Mass Market Paperback, 200 pages
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From the Bible to "Das Kapital," this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word--an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created. Reissue.
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The authors and works you never heard of are in the list because their work can be said to have influenced Hitler in some way, and because Hitler looms very large in the author's mind because the book was written in the '50s.
"The Invention of Science", which is a very thorough and scholarly work,
"The Invention of Science", which is a very thorough and scholarly work,
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attempts to refute the assumption of just about everybody, including the author of this book, that Copernicus's "De Revolutionibus" was extraordinarily influential. He points out that Copernicus's was just a rearrangement, and that the stars are still fixed in Copernicus's outer shell, not going off in all directions as we know they do today. He shows that many natural philosophers of the subsequent years seemed to take little interest in Copernicus's work and he argues that it was Tycho Brahe, whose concept of the universe was a whole lot more three-dimensional that had the greater influence. He could be correct, but that's a lot of accepted wisdom to overthrow. Show Less
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