Heideggers Lunettes

Heidegger without spectacles might not have noted that it was high thin cirrus obscuring the quartered moon as it neared meridian at sunset this evening.

From spectacles came the spyglass of Galileo - but this was not the inverting telescope of Kepler.

Leibniz was called upon for pumping aqua from mines, but the well at Todtnauberg had no need of Archimedes.

Heidegger on Richard Feynman's 1965 Nobel ?

Man sagt, die moderne Technik sei eine unvergleichbar andere genenüber aller früheren, weil sie auf der neuzeitlichen exakten Naturwissenschaft beruhe. Inzwischen hat man deutlicher erkannt, daß auch das Umgekehrte gilt: die neuzeitliche Physik ist als experimentelle auf technische Apparaturen und auf den Fortschritt des Apparatebaues angewiesen.

Arendt (who may have had no science other than Heidegger's smattering)

"[...] that we deal only with the patterns of our own mind, the mind which designed the instruments and put nature under its conditions in the experiment — prescribed its laws to nature [...]" 

But the rising and setting star is displaced by the same refraction as the canoe paddle in the stream, Herr Doktor Professor ... ah, yes, but we spoilt it by making a measurement with sticks and notches in wanting to mark the seasons, the floods, the great squalls at sea ... that arising from the activity of mind within nature with culture, with language, with social tasks (objectives.)