11/13/2023 0 Comments Anima motrixCelestial Domain Below are the following naked-eye observations that are available to the Greeks that led to the belief that the Earth must be round and not flat. Observations leading to the belief that the Earth is round. when the earth blocks the sun from the moon, casting its round shadow on the moon's surface Source:- night&psig=AOvVaw2aALgMJMBmzA8KCZ8NTovc&ust=1605761697498000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKDC09Gmi-0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE 2. Simultaneously measuring the length of the shadows cast by identical poles perpendicular to a flat surface that is tangential to the earth's radius at various, distant locations. If indeed the earth is round, then the shadows should all vary in length from one distant location to another. This means that the angle at which the parallel rays of sunlight struck each pole varied from one location to another. However, they are not identical, but in fact, vary in such a way that the angles indicate a spherical surface.Gassendi's Atomist Account of Generation and Heredity in Plants and Animals Gassendi's Atomist Account of Generation and Heredity in Plants and Animals (Recall the alternate-angles theorem from Geometry class) If the earth is flat, then the lengths of all the shadows should be identical when measured simultaneously, since all rays of sunlight that strike the earth are parallel. In his accounts of plant and animal generation Pierre Gassendi offers a mechanist story of how organisms create offspring to whom they pass on their traits. Development of the new organism is directed by a material “soul” or animula bearing ontogenetic information. Where reproduction is sexual, two sets of material semina and corresponding animulae meet and jointly determine the division, differentiation, and development of matter in the new organism. The determination of inherited traits requires a means of combining or choosing among each parent's contributions, and towards this end, Gassendi outlines the nature of competition and dominance among animulae. Unlike his fellow mechanists, Gassendi can extend his mechanism to his heredity account, because his proposed vehicle for ontogenetic transmission is material. That proposal in turn relies on his atomist hypothesis. The relative uniformity of atoms allows animulae to operate equivalently across different modes of generation, spontaneous or otherwise. Further, his molecular model of atomic structures allows a material means of storing ontogenetic information received from the souls of parent organisms. These accounts-flawed and sketchy-unsurprisingly fail to specify how hereditary information might be borne physically, and in any case do not meet Gassendi's own empiricist standards. #ESCAPE THE FILES ANIMA MOTRIX INSTALL#.
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