SOC 321 Lecture Notes - Gravitational Lens, Spirit Possession, Mathesis Universalis
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The new human religion for the non-human other. The area of the sky is the size of a dime 75 feet away. There are 1500 galaxies there alone, this might be a representation of the universe as a whole. Non-western others of the primitive, the oriental, and the ancient (goody) Develops a fetish interest in the aesthetic realm in a motion a way from world. Rational concept of the source of the irrational. Introspective and allows a turning away from the world as is. Our own milky way is home to 400 billion starts. 100 billion suns like our own in the group. 1000"s of extra solar planet discovered mostly by the method of. Suitable for life as we know it. Many similar solar systems to our own one c. 13 billion years old. Concept that everywhere nature is the same the mathesis universalis" of decorates and other posits an order a knowable one.
