Medieval Masters of Invention
Gone Medieval
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What Would Bacon's Scientific Understanding Be Like?
In the first century a d people were having these sorts of ideas. I think it would have all been wrapped up in god. Still in the thirteenth century, that's the channel through which you understand the world and you understand everything. So if there are forces at work in the world, whether they're gravity or whatever they are, they're created and powered by god. You know, newton dropped an apple, and they must have known. It's just, at what point do you start to rationalize that and create an explanation for it? That has to begin with some one questioning why it happened. And probably bacon wasn't the first person to be thinking it, necessarily
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