Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Intellectual System of the World , 1678 ), Benjamin Whichcote, and the Dean of Connors George Rust. All these men of culture and leading thinkers of that time ‘ watched the Stroker in action, and all of them believed on empirical grounds … religious ideas and beliefs were increasingly challenged by the emergence of a scientific, rationalist and empiricist culture. Still, science and faith were not regarded as mutually exclusive at this time. Neither the empiricists nor the … the tolerance of contradiction and the openness to mystery – all these were the values of the prevailing scientific culture, but they were implicitly assimilated into a wide range of pseudo-science: To reduce the relations between …
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