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Odin2005

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Mon Jun-18-07 11:05 PM
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14. He was also into alchemy and astrology IIRC.

The people that were involved in the Scientific Revolution, from Copernicus to Newton, are often held up as supremely rational supermen, when in reality they were often just as much inspired by mystical woo woo as they were by good reasoning and observation. Early scientists generally didn't start distancing themselves from the woo until the 1700s; Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler were all heavily influenced by Neo-Platonist mysticism.

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