continued… 3.0 Knowledge Aspirations From a comparative and civilization point of view, the rise of modern science appears quite different than it does when seen entirely as an intra-European movement. In the first instance, we realized that dedicated investigators of the processes of nature existed in other societies and...
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continued… 2.6 Renaissance; Mysticism and Science Due to the strong revival of interest in the Platonic, neo-Platonic and Hermetic writings, it had the effect of a double-edged sword. The same interest on mathematics resulted in occultist investigations of all kinds related to number mysticism. It encouraged a mystical...
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continued… 2.5 Renaissance; Mathematics and Natural Phenomena The new appreciation of observational evidence gives rise to the development of quantification and the increasing reliance on mathematics as a tool. Plato had stressed the importance of mathematics, and the revived interest in his work did influence the sciences in...
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continued… 2.4 Renaissance; Observation and Experiment A recurring theme in the sixteenth century literature is the rejection of antiquity. This rejection most commonly was directed at scholastic translations and commentaries. Some scholars did call for a complete new natural philosophy and medicine but many others adhere to...
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continued… 2.3 Renaissance; Growth of Vernacular Renaissance world was characterized by a rapid growth in the use of the vernacular languages in learned fields. This is seen most strikingly in the religious pamphlets of the reformation, where the author had an immediate need to reach his audience.[1] The use of vernacular also...
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continued… 2.2 Renaissance; Classical Literature The search for classical texts were intense in the fifteenth century and each new discovery was hailed as a major achievement. An important historical account which described best this situation involves Jacopo Angelo when his ship sank as he was returning from a voyage to...
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continued… 2.1 Renaissance; Science and Education Renaissance did involve a kind or ‘rebirth’ of knowledge. It was surely the period of the development of a new science. The new love of nature which was expressed by other fourteenth-century humanists had more than one effect. In the rise of a new observational study of...
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continued… 2.0 Renaissance and Reform The period between the mid-fifteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries witnessed the growing cultural and political influence of Western Europe over all other parts of the globe. The new science and technology of the West was a crucial factor in this development, a fact recognized by...
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continued.. 1.2 Technology as an Extreme Measure This new interest in technology at that time, extended clearly to those interested in warfare that will require mathematical studies in their use of cannon and the navigator had to perform calculations to determine his position at sea. This was a period that witnessed impressive...
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continued… 1.1 Science is Tested to the Limit There is no good definition of science, apparently. Even the American Physical Society (APS) found many definitions to be open ended – it is either too broad; giving ways to pseudosciences like astrology to sneak in, or too tight of a definition where such string theory,...
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