Author's note: Much of the following is excerpted from Chapter 5 of my book in progress, The Anti-Copernican Revolution. The book is concerned with the relationship between philosophy and physics, and it spans the period from Copernicus to the present.
Like the lives of individuals, history has its key moments. In Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, the h…
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