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Dutch Astronomer, Philosopher, Marxist Theorist, and Socialist Revolutionary
: A Dutch astronomer, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism (Dutch: radencommunisme). Pannekoek studied mathematics and physics in Leiden from 1891. Even before he went to college he was interested in astronomy and studied the Milky Way and variability of Polaris. He published his first article, On the Necessity of Further Researches on the Milky Way, as a student. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #4 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Science and The Universe
“...astronomy is the science of the totality of the universe, though now merely in a spatial sense. Whereas in the ancient world the idea of the unity of the heavenly and the human worlds exalted the hearts of the students of nature, now men are stirred by the proud consciousness of the power of the human mind, which from our small dwelling place is able to reach up to the remotest stellar systems.”
Source: "A History of Astronomy," by Anton Pannekoek, published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. Introduction, Page 14.
"A History of Astronomy," by Anton Pannekoek, published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1961.
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