The Radical Enlightenment: The Role of Science in the Battle Between Christianity and Pantheism
The French Academy of Sciences was established in 1666. Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority
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