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When Bacon’s call to begin a complete renovation of knowledge heralded the birth of the scientific revolution, the ways people approached science changed. In this new climate, coral reef investigation started to focus on the geological structures of the earth and a possible connection to reef formation. As scientific societies were established, with their own publications sharing ideas more widely during the Enlightenment, new ways of thinking emerged. Rationality began to replace mythology; dissent and argument flourished, and most significantly, microscopes were developed, leading to new ways of seeing the world. ‘Science’ was born.
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Aquinas: Quaestiones disputatae, De veritate, q. 2, argument 19.
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Italian, gesta: deeds, achievements (of the lynx-eyed).
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Timaeus 25 D.
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Hooke (1705, pp. 335, 431). Published posthumously two years after his death in 1703.
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Current geological knowledge places England at 35°N in the Triassic period, c. 251–206 million years ago (Mya).
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Literally, God or Nature.
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Bowen, J. (2015). The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century. In: The Coral Reef Era: From Discovery to Decline. Humanity and the Sea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07479-5_2
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