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Abstract:
The Present Paradigm Shift in Historical Perspective
The Copernican revolution destroyed the Medieval paradigm about
reality, the paradigm that was so beautifully encapsulated in
Dante's Divine Comedy. It did not provide Western civilization,
however, with an alternative world view. The new paradigm it
provided was limited to astronomy. Following Copernicus, for over
100 years Western civilization was devoid of a comprehensive
paradigm. The new comprehensive paradigm emerged as a result of
advances in physics. It was the Newtonian "clockwork
universe."
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