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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that Galileo really struggled convincing his patrons go finance such experiments. Science wasn't concerned with fundamental questions about how the world works until very recently

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

That’s not necessarily true, they are definitely interested in how the world worked, they just used a very different set of assumptions and methodologies compared to what we use today.