Nor do I understand his conclusion that Europe became the font of modern science because it was Christian. Why did the modern scientific revolution start in Europe? It is a complicated question ...

In popular history, the scientific revolution is often viewed to be due ... for anyone interested in the early history of science in Europe, specifically the 11th and 12th centuries.

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the ...

Science is fragile. The scientific revolution was not inevitable. It emerged from the cauldron of religious wars that ravaged 17th-century Europe. The conditions that birthed the scientific ...

The Scientific Revolution was conducted by scientists ... Nobody knows for sure why modern science uniquely arose in medieval Christian Europe. But many point to the primacy of reason in Christian ...

Internationally, the period witnessed the gradual consolidation of leading European powers, as reflected in the ... such as the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, which ...