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You know, they had a baseball diamond, they had a-- a camp library and a university -- they called it a university, where the better educated officers taught classes in astron -- astronomy and French to the -- to the enlisted men.

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Not the most intricately formed metal cup or detailed inscription cut into stone could dis'suade him from his sudden fanatic interest in astron-omy.

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If, through some barely conceivable quirk of intellectual history, he had been unable to effect his observationally and mathe - matically fortified synthesis of dynamics and astron - omy, the scientific revolution might possibly have fal - tered and even faded.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

Yet, on the Continent, the astron - omer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), who accepted the

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

Although such stars have not yet been observed directly, astron - omers believe that they constitute some of the X-ray sources now being observed and are the recently dis - covered “pulsars.”

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

It was the nascent positive spirit, encouraged by the emergence of geometry and astron - omy that familiarized the educated mind with the conception of invariable laws and thereby facilitated the transition from the belief in a plurality of arbitrary and unpredictable gods to the belief in one God, the source of unity and order, though still capable of reversing the course of nature by miraculous interposi - tions (Comte [1875], II, 208).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MORRIS GINSBERG 1968

Most of the fruits were borne in mechanics and astron - omy, but some were seen in new solutions to the prob - lems of the continuum and of infinity.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

He maintained, moreover, that infe - rior as the ancients were in the sciences, they knew more about them, particularly geometry and astron - omy, than they knew about the true principles of reason and humanity, “unique source of the true use of belles-lettres in prose and poetry.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

The concepts which were proving so fruitful in physics and astron - omy were unavailable to epistemology and psychology.

ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968

Evolutionary conceptions figure in modern astron - omy at two points.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968