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Alistair Cameron Crombie on Science

d. 1996

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Nicolaus Copernicus is the supreme example of a man who revolutionized science by looking at the old facts in a new way.

Medieval and Early Modern Science (1952)

The strategic act by which Grosseteste and his thirteenth- and fourteenth-century successors created modern experimental science was to unite the experimental habit of the practical arts with the rationalism of twelfth-century philosophy.

Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)

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