Whatchu got X
those were not "forerunners" for science you fuck
science was the forerunner for science
>those were not "forerunners" for science you fuck
>science was the forerunner for science
>>17145588
>Whatchu got X
/x/ or /x], but never X
>>17145617
In the Middle Ages, medicine was strongly linked to astrology...
>>17145617
>people looking at the stars for magical purposes weren't the forerunners of people who look at the stars for scientific purposes
>people who mixed together chemicals for magical purposes contributed nothing to people who mixed chemicals for scientific reasons
>people just woke up in the late 17th century and decided it was now the Enlightenment and started to do science, completely from scratch and independently
>>17145588
Issac Newton would be consider way wacky now a days. He wrote wild texts about Bible prophecy and alchemy, he was sure he was living in The End Times... wait, that means he'd fit right in on /x/.
>>17145671
Same with most early scientists.Take Paracelsus for instance. He discovered that dosage is the difference between cure and poison. He also genuinely believed if you stuck a jar of human semen in a pile of horse dung and fed it blood, it'd grow into a magical human.
>>17145588
>implying anyone has to do a ritual on new years
>>17145588
>implying anything of significance ever happened in the Gregorian new years.
Shiggy mcfucking diggy m8
