I understand the reference to Ptolemy, Newton (Copernicus?), Darwin, but how did Einstein teach us that we're "part of nature instead of a privileged special case"?
In terms of the relativity of our frames of reference. We can't even measure time on a clock or the length of a pace and declare it to be valid for anyone that has followed a different space-time path. One minute to me isn't the same for my brother in a fast train, let alone Zod on Krypton. Relativity says that our whole view of the world is unprivileged.
Space-time is not centered on our perspective. That's the revelation of the Michelson–Morley experiment that Einstein explained.
