09-08-2025, 02:37 PM
Rambling but interesting and well-illustrated article.
"“In medieval and early modern Europe, chemistry and chemical medicine is dominated by clergy who act as pharmacists and apothecaries... Despite the widely held belief that the early modern church was staunchly anti-science—a view epitomized in the 1633 heresy trial of Galileo—Christianity actually was a catalyst for scientific discovery."
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/m...oly-smoke/
"“In medieval and early modern Europe, chemistry and chemical medicine is dominated by clergy who act as pharmacists and apothecaries... Despite the widely held belief that the early modern church was staunchly anti-science—a view epitomized in the 1633 heresy trial of Galileo—Christianity actually was a catalyst for scientific discovery."
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/m...oly-smoke/