Comments on: The Copernican Revolution http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/06/the-copernican-revolution/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/06/the-copernican-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-18905 alistair Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:53:17 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/06/the-copernican-revolution/#comment-18905 well, sun worship makes so much more practical sense. it warms us, provides food for us, welcomes us each day and leaves to sleep all night knowing he will return again......(get it?) to get the sun thing we just have to look up and see for ourselves. no great leap of faith or scriptural understanding. here comes the sun, or good-day sunshine, or i`ll follow the sun by the beatles could be seen as thier religious works. well, sun worship makes so much more practical sense. it warms us, provides food for us, welcomes us each day and leaves to sleep all night knowing he will return again……(get it?) to get the sun thing we just have to look up and see for ourselves. no great leap of faith or scriptural understanding. here comes the sun, or good-day sunshine, or i`ll follow the sun by the beatles could be seen as thier religious works.

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/06/the-copernican-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-18895 Tim Boucher Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:17:24 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/06/the-copernican-revolution/#comment-18895 P. 33-34 <blockquote>[T]he cosmos itself was primarily a mechanical system capable of being fully understood by reference solely to a mechanical model. Not man but the machine became the central feature in this new world picture... Though the religion of the Sun God, which shaped the new power complex, was to have immense practical consequences – political, military, economic – it would be an error to believe that these were the motives originally in view: it was the numinous and luminous aspects of astronomy, achieved by its very detachment from pressing human concerns, that seemed to offer a new promise of salvation, not tainted by corrupt human motives. In a world embattled in relentless theological controversy and enmeshed n ideological confusions, the new astronomy brought a clarifying order that in itself evoked – to use a then-current phrase - “the music of the spheres. ... Unfortunately, just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked demonic and criminal impulses that crippled its utopian hopes, so behind the benign order and geometric beauty of the new science an ancient power system had begun to re-establish itself, on a scale never before conceivable. ... [T]he new cult paradoxically promoted an immense concentration on the mastery of earthly life: exploration, invention, conquest, colonization, all centered on immediate fulfillment. Now, not the hereafter, was what counted. </blockquote> P. 33-34

[T]he cosmos itself was primarily a mechanical system capable of being fully understood by reference solely to a mechanical model. Not man but the machine became the central feature in this new world picture…

Though the religion of the Sun God, which shaped the new power complex, was to have immense practical consequences – political, military, economic – it would be an error to believe that these were the motives originally in view: it was the numinous and luminous aspects of astronomy, achieved by its very detachment from pressing human concerns, that seemed to offer a new promise of salvation, not tainted by corrupt human motives. In a world embattled in relentless theological controversy and enmeshed n ideological confusions, the new astronomy brought a clarifying order that in itself evoked – to use a then-current phrase - “the music of the spheres. …

Unfortunately, just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked demonic and criminal impulses that crippled its utopian hopes, so behind the benign order and geometric beauty of the new science an ancient power system had begun to re-establish itself, on a scale never before conceivable. … [T]he new cult paradoxically promoted an immense concentration on the mastery of earthly life: exploration, invention, conquest, colonization, all centered on immediate fulfillment. Now, not the hereafter, was what counted.

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