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Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich is research professor of astronomy and the history of science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (Walker).
The future of homo sapiens: A species perspective
The colleague with whom I teach astronomy likes to challenge our students with the question, "Are we any smarter than the ancient Greeks were?" We surely have a great deal more knowledge—especially...
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