@michael_nielsen Greek atomism also probably played a role in development of “laws of nature”, original atomists like Democritus thought atoms had only geometric properties and had very mechanical concept of their motions, on revival see https://t.co/PVxOP
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RT @drethelin: People in favor of open borders occasionally make arguments about immigration being free before various American acts of th…
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People in favor of open borders occasionally make arguments about immigration being free before various American acts of the 18 and 1900s but legal citizenship and restricted migration have been a thing at least since the renaissance https://t.co/egGWHdoT
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The Inquisition prohibition of Copernican astronomy in 1616 gave new impetus to geocentrism, in its geoheliocentric form, among Catholics. https://t.co/RkkOyaFBjc #endtimes #christianity