The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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Standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent dis organisation of society, and the diversion of men's thoughts from sublunary matters to the problems of the supernatural world suggested by Christian dogma in the Mid dle Ages. And, notwithstanding sporadic attempts to recall men to the investiga tion of nature, here and there, it was not until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that physical science made a new start. Founding itself, at first, altogether upon that which had been done by the Greeks. Indeed, it must be admitted that the men of the Renaissance, though standing on the shoulders of the old philosophers, were a long time before they saw as much as their forerunners had done.

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