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CHAPTER XI - SCIENCE IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

John William Draper
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Illustration of the general influences of Science from the history of America.

The Introductionof Science Into Europe.—It passed from Moorish Spain to Upper Italy, and was favored by the absence of the popes at Avignon.—The effects of printing, of maritime adventure, and of the Reformation.—Establishment of the Italian scientific societies.

The Intellectual Influenceof Science.—It changed the mode and the direction of thought in Europe.—The transactions of the Royal Society of London, and other scientific societies, furnish an illustration of this.

The Economical Influenceof Scienceis illustrated by the numerous mechanical and physical inventions, made since the fourteenth century.—Their influence on health and domestic life, on the arts of peace and of war.

Answer to the question, What has Science done for humanity?

Europe, at the epoch of the Reformation, furnishes us with the result of the influences of Roman Christianity in the promotion of civilization. America, examined in like manner at the present time, furnishes us with an illustration of the influences of science.

In the course of the seventeenth century a sparse European population had settled along the western Atlantic coast. Attracted by the cod-fishery of Newfoundland, the French had a little colony north of the St. Lawrence; the English, Dutch, and Swedes, occupied the shore of New England and the Middle States; some Huguenots were living in the Carolinas.

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History of the Conflict between Religion and Science , pp. 286 - 326
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1875

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