CDZ Nonsense About the Causes of Dark Ages

"It is popularly thought that the scientific revolution began with Copernicus, sealed by Galileo,reached its apex with Newton and brought to its logical conclusion by Darwin. In the scientificrevolution we assume human society’s worldview shifted from a more religious one to one basedon empirical science But this transition started in the medieval period. In the Philippines the first priest-scientists the Jesuit Botanist and Pharmacist Georg Joseph Kamel in 1688 held on to theGalilean idea of proving natural phenomena by experiment. The current popular idea of ascientific revolution assumes nothing of scientific significance happened in the middle ages.This is untrue. There was revolutionary science in the middle ages and this led Newton tofamously re state the old Latin metaphor “
nanos gigantium humeris insidentes”

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”

"Which to end this essay was first attributed to Bernard of Chartres (died in 1124), a medieval monk and philosopher who was really inspired by Gerbert de Aurillac, the mathematical andscientific Pope Sylvester II."

There was nothing dark about the Dark Ages: The Medieval Origins of Science
 
The diffusion of Arabic numerals and business practices were the major reasons for recovery of Europe that led to scientific revolutions in that sense I concur. But not being conquered by the Mongols but very much experiencing the Plague is what made Northwest unique and led to the industrial revolution.
 

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