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2. On the Heavens - Wikipedia

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   Page one of Aristotle's On the Heavens, from an edition published in 1837. On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ; Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BCE, [1] it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world.

3. Popper's three worlds - Wikipedia

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   These three "worlds" are not proposed as isolated universes but rather are realms or levels within the known universe. Their numbering reflects their temporal order within the known universe and that the later realms emerged as products of developments within the preceding realms. A one-word description of each realm is that World 1 is the material realm, World 2 is the mental realm, and World ...

4. Macro Manuscript - Wikipedia

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   The monk Thomas Hyngman transcribed Mankind and Wisdom between 1460 and 1475. [3] Along with The Castle of Perseverance, Hyngman's Mankind and Wisdom were acquired by the Reverend Cox Macro of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in the early 18th century. Macro bound them together somewhat arbitrarily, along with three other non-dramatic manuscripts.

5. Stuff Matters - Wikipedia

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   Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World is a 2014 non-fiction book by the British materials scientist Mark Miodownik. The book explores many of the common materials people encounter during their daily lives and seeks to explain the science behind them in an accessible manner.

6. Material world - Wikipedia

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   The physical world. Nature, the phenomena of the physical world, and life in general; As a proper noun: Material World, a Canadian television sitcom in the 1990s; Material World (radio programme), a BBC Radio 4 science programme; Material World: A Global Family Portrait, a 1994 photo essay by Peter Menzel

7. The World Set Free - Wikipedia

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   The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. [1] The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. [2] [3] [4] It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to ...

8. Materialism - Wikipedia

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   Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions of material things.

9. Marx's theory of human nature - Wikipedia

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   G.A. Cohen wrote: "The tendency's autonomy is just its independence of social structure, its rootedness in fundamental material facts of human nature and the human situation." [39] Allen Wood wrote: "Historical progress consists fundamentally in the growth of people's abilities to shape and control the world about them. This is the most basic ...