{"product_id":"history-of-astronomy-von-george-forbes","title":"History of Astronomy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe growth of intelligence in the human race has its counterpart in that of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe individual, especially in the earliest stages. Intellectual activity and the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edevelopment of reasoning powers are in both cases based upon the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaccumulation of experiences, and on the comparison, classification, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earrangement, and nomenclature of these experiences. During the infancy of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach the succession of events can be watched, but there can be no à \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epriorianticipations. Experience alone, in both cases, leads to the idea of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecause and effect as a principle that seems to dominate our present universe, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas a rule for predicting the course of events, and as a guide to the choice of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea course of action. This idea of cause and effect is the most potent factor in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeveloping the history of the human race, as of the individual. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn no realm of nature is the principle of cause and effect more conspicuous \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethan in astronomy; and we fall into the habit of thinking of its laws as not \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonly being unchangeable in our universe, but necessary to the conception of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eany universe that might have been substituted in its place. The first \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einhabitants of the world were compelled to accommodate their acts to the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edaily and annual alternations of light and darkness and of heat and cold, as \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emuch as to the irregular changes of weather, attacks of disease, and the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efortune of war. They soon came to regard the influence of the sun, in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econnection with light and heat, as a cause. This led to a search for other \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esigns in the heavens. If the appearance of a comet was sometimes noted \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esimultaneously with the death of a great ruler, or an eclipse with a scourge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof plague, these might well be looked upon as causes in the same sense that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe veering or backing of the wind is regarded as a cause of fine or foul \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041985746\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Evolution of Astronomical Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041985746","offer_id":47651011854661,"sku":"9791041985746","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/d50b5b3a-ae3d-4d1b-bcde-31c8d251921b.jpg?v=1781155829","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/history-of-astronomy-von-george-forbes","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}