Question

This person infers the existence of birds from “shadow-figures” in an example about a cubical world from Hans Reichenbach’s Experience and Prediction. This person’s ideas represent “a call to the Pygmalion in the mind of man” according to the first chapter of Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge. A theory developed by this person contradicts “natural interpretations” such as the Aristotelian “tower argument” according to (*) Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method. In Critique (-5[1])of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant analogized this person’s work to his own attempt to view objects as conforming to intuition rather than vice-versa. A 1543 work by this person ushered in the first and most discussed paradigm shift in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. For 10 points, what astronomer’s On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres sets out his heliocentric theory? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Nicolaus Copernicus [accept Copernican revolution]
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Will Alston1.g4 Test MixtureThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola68-5
Aum MundheThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola1.g4 Test Mixture13210

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