The Decline of the West
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The Decline of the West is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler. The first volume, subtitled Form and Actuality, was published in the summer of 1918. The second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World
Cover of Volume II, first edition, 1922
Copernican Revolution
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Copernican Revolution is a phrase with different meanings in different contexts. In astronomy, the phrase refers to the transition from geocentrism to heliocentrism. For Christianity and Western cultu
The Decline of the West
…Perspectives of World History, was published in 1922. The definitive edition of both volumes was published in 1923. Spengler introduced his book as a "Copernican overturning"—a specific metaphor of societal collapse—involving the rejection of the Eurocentric view of history, especially the division of history into the linear…
Cristiano Banti's 1857 painting Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition
God, depicted as the Great Architect of the Universe, creating the Universe using geometric and harmonic principles. Many Christians have believed that to seek to understand these principles was to seek and worship God. c. 1250
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