The Helioeccentric Theory

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Kranzberg, Delillo, White Noise, Science, Technology, Fiction

William Gibson’s Neuromancer demonstrates how technique changes not only our view of the world around us, but enables us to see ourselves as changeable objects of the world. The world of Neuromancer is one where no form is sacred. The world is made over as a tool to be used, to be reshaped along with the reshaping of our needs.

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Biographies

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of

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Chronobiology

Alexander Chizhevsky

In the annals of unconventional scientific history, few figures are as intriguing as Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897–1964). A true Soviet-era polymath—biophysicist, historian, poet, and painter—Chizhevsky

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Chronobiology

Jevons and solar cycles

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) English economist and logician Jevons’ Sunspot Theory: From Curious Coincidence to Discredited Idea In the late 19th century, the prominent British

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Philosophy of Science

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)

Jacques Ellul comments that while Technique is able to liberate man from the constraints of time and space that can never engender freedom. Ellul seems

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