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From Ancient Egypt To Modern Science: The Forgotten Link [1]

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Sun, 12/07/2014 - 10:03

The ‘Scientific Revolution’ describes the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century watershed in the basic attitude to the scientific method, laying the foundations for the modern technological age. Starting when Copernicus went public with his heliocentric theory in 1543, and ending when Isaac Newton published Principia Mathematica [2] in 1687, textbooks say there was a window of just 150 years when European thinking was transformed from superstition to science.

But that’s not the way it was. In reality, science owes its origins to beliefs that the high priests of modern science such as Richard Dawkins would regard as even more irrational than Christianity. Far, far worse to them would be the fact that the particular ‘superstitions’ in question were unprecedentedly influential.

In fact, the Scientific Revolution was driven by a very specific magical philosophy and cosmology, set out in a set of texts that inspired all the pioneers of science, directly or indirectly.

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[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1490592156/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490592156&linkCode=as2&tag=wakitime09-20&linkId=VI3C4Z2DI2P7O5AH
[3] http://collectivelyconscious.net/articles/from-ancient-egypt-to-modern-science-the-forgotten-link/
[4] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/category/type-post/world-news-politics/collectively-conscious