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  2. D. T. Suzuki - Wikipedia

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    David McMahan claimed that Western audiences identified with 'Western esotericism concealed', 'disguised' as 'eastern mysticism'. [21] This resemblance is not coincidental, since Suzuki was also influenced by Western esotericism, [11] and even joined the Theosophical Society. [10] Several scholars have identified Suzuki as a Buddhist modernist ...

  3. Cyclic model - Wikipedia

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    A cyclic model (or oscillating model) is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles. For example, the oscillating universe theory briefly considered by Albert Einstein in 1930 theorized a universe following an eternal series of oscillations, each beginning with a Big Bang and ending with a Big Crunch; in the interim, the ...

  4. Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia

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    Given that pulsars were discovered in the interval between his writing the short story, "The Star" (1955), and making Mysterious World (1980), and given the more recent discovery of pulsar PSR B1913+16, he said: "How romantic, if even now, we can hear the dying voice of a star, which heralded the Christian era." [122]

  5. De motu corporum in gyrum - Wikipedia

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    Theorem 2 considers a body moving uniformly in a circular orbit, and shows that for any given time-segment, the centripetal force (directed towards the center of the circle, treated here as a center of attraction) is proportional to the square of the arc-length traversed, and inversely proportional to the radius.

  6. Documentary hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The second edition was printed as Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels ("Prolegomena to the History of Israel") in 1883, [25] and the work is better known under that name. [26] The second volume, a synthetic history titled Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte ['Israelite and Jewish History'], [ 27 ] did not appear until 1894 and remains ...

  7. Will Durant - Wikipedia

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    William James Durant (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t /; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations.

  8. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Wikipedia

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    The known planets revolved about the Sun, each in its own sphere, in the order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. The Moon, however, revolved in its sphere around the Earth. What appeared to be the daily revolution of the Sun and fixed stars around the Earth was actually the Earth's daily rotation on its own axis.

  9. Robert Bauval - Wikipedia

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    Alnitak on the Great Pyramid of Giza; Alnilam on the pyramid of Khafre; Mintaka on the pyramid of Menkaure; Bauval is specifically known for the Orion Correlation Theory (OCT), which proposes a relationship between the fourth dynasty Egyptian pyramids of the Giza Plateau and the alignment of certain stars in the constellation of Orion. [5]