Christoph Grienberger (July 2, 1561 - March 11, 1636) on Learning and Experience(published by RevoltSource) |
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Austrian Jesuit Astronomer, Student, Scholar, Astronomer, Professor of Mathematics, Namesake of the Crater Gruemberger on the Moon
: An Austrian Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“I know how difficult it is to dismiss opinions sustained for centuries by the authority of so many scholars. And surely, if I had not seen, so far as the instruments allowed, these wonders with my own eyes... I do not know whether I would have consented to your arguments.”
Source: "A History of Anthropology," by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielson, Second Edition, 2013, Pluto Press, London, UK. Part Two: Astronomy in Revolution, Chapter 22: The Struggle over the World System, Page 230.
"A History of Anthropology," by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielson, Second Edition, 2013, Pluto Press, London, UK.
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