We should never forget that all the magnificent power and fruitfulness of modern scientific method was achieved, before all else, by a severe narrowing of investigative focus: one that involved abandoning many of the most vital aspects of ancient and mediaeval “natural philosophy,” rejecting them as mere metaphysical conjectures or (worse) religious dog…
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