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Pierre Duhem: How the Catholic Church Destroyed Astrology and Prepared the Way for Modern Science

In the system which Maimonides sets forth we see, so to speak, the culmination of all the ideas whose development has been traced in this chapter.
We find there, first of all, the affirmation of the principle that Aristotle had already formulated with such clarity: The various parts of the universe is interconnected by a rigorous [...]

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