Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/210/en

Enormous upheavals mark the threshold passage into the modern era, into the Age of the Consciousness Soul. Europe begins to articulate itself into nation-states. The deed of the Maid of Orleans (1412–1431) initiates the process of territorial separation between France and England; the seafarers from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal open the sea routes to distant lands; the newer sciences found themselves on abstracting thought; Copernicus (1473–1543) «lässt die Erde sich um die Sonne drehen» (sets the earth turning around the sun); Church and nobility succumb to orthodoxy; both insist on their privileges and contend for power; the cities grow, and with them the bourgeoisie. The arts mirror the shift in consciousness most clearly — as, for example, when the painting of the gold ground, an image of the eternal streaming into the temporal, is displaced by the

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