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Tag: World Conference of Science Journalists

The Arabick Roots of Science, and Their Fruit to Come

Posted on June 20, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

If asked to trace the roots of modern Western science, most educated Westerners will point to the scientific revolution that flowered in Europe following the Renaissance, with Copernicus’s 1543 “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres” the main marker. There and then, it is thought, science began asserting an account of nature separate from that of […]

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