"However, the learned Lord Chancellor did anticipate the modern research institution and was influential not only in the 1660 founding of the Royal Society, but also in the vision of science as a tool for achieving power and dominion over nature."
I may be nitpicking here, but doesn't the famous quote go that nature must be obeyed before it can be commanded?
Eratosthones, if you calculated the circumference of the globe with remarkable accuracy in the 200s b.c. , why have a never heard of you before the last few years? Copeenicus, Galileo, Columbus in all these stories, I never heard you mentioned
"However, the learned Lord Chancellor did anticipate the modern research institution and was influential not only in the 1660 founding of the Royal Society, but also in the vision of science as a tool for achieving power and dominion over nature."
I may be nitpicking here, but doesn't the famous quote go that nature must be obeyed before it can be commanded?
Eratosthones, if you calculated the circumference of the globe with remarkable accuracy in the 200s b.c. , why have a never heard of you before the last few years? Copeenicus, Galileo, Columbus in all these stories, I never heard you mentioned
"Newton ... demonstrated the power of a single genius, working largely in isolation, to rework the foundations of human understanding."
Now do Miles Matthis.
:)
BTW, that quote from Whewell: is that just a fancy way of saying "if it works, keep doing it" ?