No, the Reformation did not cause the scientific revolution. Nice brief article.
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Whyvert Retweeted Nature News & Comment
No, the Reformation did not cause the scientific revolution. Nice brief article.
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Whyvert added,
"First, plenty of great sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientists were Catholics ..." Okay, but Luther was a Catholic.
... The notion that the Reformation can be separated from Gutenberg is bizarre.
Indeed, it cannot. Reformation amplified Europe's political fragmentation, which I think aided science
Catholics with print media is like communists with computers. You can see immediately that part of the story has gone missing.
Protestants with print can be dangerous too, like Trotskysists, prone to excess enthusiasm as they used to call it
Going to add Hume to the roster of those who value political fragmentation. His reaction to Bunker Hill in 1775: let the Americans leave!pic.twitter.com/UqCYfiHGgA
The failure of his third ambition screwed everything
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