You will also want to consult WH , 388-390. But he probably also meant Ptolemy, since he was well aware that Ptolemy was working within an intellectual framework with vastly different horizons, with respect both to the quality of the data available and to previously developed theoretical resources. Go to the introduction to Francis Bacon and the Novum Organum . Go to the introduction to Ren Descartes and the Meditations on First Philosophy . Go to the introduction to Thomas Aquinas and scholasticism in philosophy.
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