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The different attitudes of Galileo and Feuerbach towards the Copernican system demonstrate the complexity of the Copernican turn in the history of science. Galileo's intuitive observation through a telescope in his "Dialogue on the Two Systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus" laid the foundation for the establishment of modern scientific methods. Feuerbach, on the other hand, appreciated Copernicus' idealism, believing that it represented a spirit that was out of sync with the positivist trend. Blumenberg uses these two quotations in "The Creation of the Copernican World" to depict historical changes and explore clues in the history of technological thought, namely reflections on the history of science or modern knowledge revolutions in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. He raised the question of how the Copernican turn is possible and attempted to reconstruct the historicity of the history of science, focusing on the historical transformation of theoretical thinking itself. Blumenberg's perspective on the history of technological thought is unique. He does not distinguish between the internal and external aspects of the history of science, but instead discovers clues from the edges, fragments, and anecdotes, establishing a connection between the history of science and the history of thought. His research methodology dilemma lies in the indecision between the history and ontological history of technological thought, gradually abandoning pessimistic cultural criticism from early technical papers to later ones, and exploring how technology has become a modern construction element. Blumenberg explores the close relationship between modern technology and the rupture of modern existentialism by studying the debate between Heidegger and Karl Schmitt, thus establishing his own research on the history of technological thought and sorting out the emergence of modern knowledge revolution in the context of "the disappearance of order".

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Blumenberg believed that early modern astronomy and technological development originated from the "disappearance of order" in the late Middle Ages, which marked a fundamental change in understanding of the world. He explored the question of whether the reality structures related to humans really exist, namely the special status of humans in natural structures. Blumenberg analyzed the ideological foundations of Copernicus' turn, including the concept of Kusanagula's perspective, mathematical claims, and Eckhart's rational mysticism. Kusanigula criticized the geocentric cosmology and proposed the concept of an infinite universe in "On the Knowledgeable Ignorance," challenging the medieval cosmology. Copernicus inherited nominalism and moved the Earth out of the center of the universe, with the motivation of repairing rather than destroying traditional cosmological models and harmonizing them with metaphysical beliefs through mathematical simplification.

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In the early 20th century, Husserl criticized Galileo's research methods, arguing that they led to the abstraction of modern science and the neglect of intuitive phenomenology. Husserl proposed in "European Scientific Crisis and Transcendental Phenomenology" that although the development of modern science has brought about technological progress, it has also forgotten the world of life. Blumenberg responded to Husserl in "The Creation of the Copernican World", stating that Husserl's diagnosis of modern science was too pessimistic and overlooked the role of theoretical curiosity in scientific development. Blumenberg believed that theoretical curiosity is the foundation of modern scientific methods, which drives the exploration of unknown fields in science. He traced the history of theoretical curiosity, from Augustine's critique to Galileo and Bacon's defense, demonstrating the importance of theoretical curiosity in the modern scientific revolution. Blumenberg emphasized that the liberation of theoretical curiosity is the key to the legitimacy of modern scientific explanations, which reflects the self assertion of modern people and their reacquisition of symbol systems after the disappearance of order. He revealed the role and challenges of the Christian tradition in scientific development by examining the modern knowledge revolution. Blumenberg's research suggests that theoretical curiosity has played an important role in the history of modern science, serving not only as the foundation of scientific methods but also as a defense of modern legitimacy.