HISTORY OF SCIENCE Faith and reason and Father Stanley Jaki, Part 6: Medieval Christendom sparks a revolution*

Let’s now look at how my branch of science, physics, developed in Europe before the time of Newton. Generally we are taught that the rise of physics came about, rather suddenly, in the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries, starting with Copernicus, further developed by Francis Bacon and Galileo, then Kepler and Descartes, and culminating with Isaac Newton. I will limit myself to the laws of mechanics, upon which most discoveries in physics in the 17th and 18th centuries rest. …

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