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    Rarefaction and Condensation

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    Atomism in the Renaissance

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    Gravitas, Renaissance Concept of

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    Traditionally, gravitas denotes the inner source of movement towards the center of the universe. In the mediaeval Latin tradition, the chief problem was to fit this notion within a coherent Aristotelian framework. As philosophers in the Renaissance begin to breach the constraints of Aristotelian natural philosophy, we see diverse attempts to conceive gravitas as a force also responsible for natural phenomena such as tides and free fall acceleration. The coexistence in the Renaissance of different Aristotelian and non-Aristotelian concepts of gravitas makes the latter a polysemic scientific term, whose meaning can be determined only after careful examination of the context in which it was employed

    Conditioned taste aversions: From poisons to pain to drugs of abuse

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