Saturday, February 15, 2014

450 years Galilei - 20 Minuten Online

The year 1564 has set outstanding key figures of European art and history of science. On 18 February dies with the genius Michelangelo one of the most versatile Italian artist of all time. Three days earlier, sees Galileo Galilei in Pisa Tuscan light of the world. In the same year the British playwright William Shakespeare was born.

thesis of Nicholas Copernicus that the earth revolves around the sun, and thus bring home to the people from the center of the world at that time image. Shortly after 1500 Copernicus had this repressed idea of ??ancient Greek astronomers picked up, but his work for decades not be published. This happened just before his death and initially attracted little attention.

2), the British naturalist Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in 1859. That man is descended from animals, is another blow to the self-understanding of the people. Although his work is being heavily attacked by the Church, Darwin referred neither himself nor his theory as atheistic

3) The self-understanding of human receives from Freud himself in 1900 a further blow. Man is, therefore, among other things, controlled by unconscious processes such as his instincts, before all the sex drive.

There are several proposals to further insults of mankind.

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