The older tradition starts from a different conceptual model. Its image is not of an upward flying arrow, but a kind of cross-shaped movement, the two essential directions of which can be called exitus and reditus, departure and return. This “paradigm” is common in the general history of religions as well as in Christian antiquity [...]
Posts Tagged ‘epicycles’
3 Nov
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s “Spirit of the Liturgy”: Circles and Epicycles, Exitus and Reditus
3 Jul
Geocentric model and the precession of Mercury
Few days ago, we were having lunch at the Climate Studies Division. It’s an ordinary lunch, with each of us bringing our own food we bought from the cafeteria or cooked at home. Then the issue of the sun being the center of the universe came up. I think it is difficult to prove the [...]
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