
Sleep Story 208 – Science and the Modern World
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The History of Science in Europe
There have been great civilizations in which the peculiar balance of mind required for science has only fitfully appeared and has produced the feeblest result. For whatever reason, search was languid. Invention stimulated thought. Thought quickened physical speculation. Greek manuscripts disclosed what the ancients had discovered. Finally, although in the year n hundred, europe knew less than archimedes, who died in the year 212 b c. Yet in the year 17 hundred, newton's principia had been written and the world was well started.
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