Cannon Balls, Plate Tectonics, and Invisible Elephants
January 12, 2017 By Hal Morris
“For our pre-technical ancestors, the clockwork at the bottom of the material world was so clothed in messiness that hardly a trace of it appeared on the surface. But you could say that three exposed bits collectively formed a Rosetta stone to the mathematical language of nature: a thrown rock, a pendulum, and the solar system, revealed by the night sky.”
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“The last had to be viewed from such a difficult angle that reams of tables, centuries worth of exact observations, and a huge advance in mathematics were required to see it, but it was there to be seen.”