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I'm starting to get back to reading a lot, what with all these library books. So i'll probably be posting lots in response to them.
Went to bed and decided not to take the Martin's Mammoths or Unwin's Pterosaurs as too likely to get me thinking/working as opposed to sleeping. So I took Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. As always, Quammen has wonderful lines that deserves remembering. But i could pass up journaling Quammens rhetorical flourishes, it was his discussion of Darwin and Copernicus I couldn't pass up, it mirror so closely my own thoughts (i'm nearly positive i didn't get them from Quammen; i think they're largely in response to The Five Ages of the Universe).
"Copernicus [...] is th one whose impact most closely resembles Darwin's, in that Darwin continued the revolution Copernicus began, alerting humans to the fact that we don't occupy central position [sic] in the universe. [...] I say 'continued' rather than 'completed' the Copernican revolution against anthropocentrism because the battle is still going on."
For years one of my bumper-sticker-type slogans has been "Fight the Good Fight! The Copernican Revolution Never Ends!"
Okay, back to trying to sleep.
Went to bed and decided not to take the Martin's Mammoths or Unwin's Pterosaurs as too likely to get me thinking/working as opposed to sleeping. So I took Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. As always, Quammen has wonderful lines that deserves remembering. But i could pass up journaling Quammens rhetorical flourishes, it was his discussion of Darwin and Copernicus I couldn't pass up, it mirror so closely my own thoughts (i'm nearly positive i didn't get them from Quammen; i think they're largely in response to The Five Ages of the Universe).
"Copernicus [...] is th one whose impact most closely resembles Darwin's, in that Darwin continued the revolution Copernicus began, alerting humans to the fact that we don't occupy central position [sic] in the universe. [...] I say 'continued' rather than 'completed' the Copernican revolution against anthropocentrism because the battle is still going on."
For years one of my bumper-sticker-type slogans has been "Fight the Good Fight! The Copernican Revolution Never Ends!"
Okay, back to trying to sleep.