History of Science

'science' is an obfuscatory discursive monolith that conceals the competing claims to what constitutes validity in science through history --- Anon, 4. Dec, 2019
This author places it chiefly as a Protestant phenomenon since the Protestant nations were so dominant in it. England utterly towers over other nations in scientific inventions, but it started by Catholics in England and Italy (Renaissance etc). Catholics start science and it's then accelerated by Protestants. Catholics set up the order to make science possible, the library, university and monastic system, it then becomes an accelerant for them losing control of things (see ‘Semantic Apocalypse’; ‘Nihilism’). Mass printing and science contribute to the apocalypse of Catholic power, in association with the semantic clash that the new ideas make.
"Dee immersed himself in Bacon’s worldview; works by Bacon soon multiplied in his library. In 1557, Dee composed a defense of Bacon, stating that his miracles had been attained by natural science rather than with the aid of demons, as his critics had charged.48 
Dee became similarly obsessed with Raymond Llull, a.k.a. “Doctor Illuminatus.”50 A Franciscan monk who experienced waking visions of Christ, Llull may have written the first European novel (Blanquerna), and he did pioneering work on computation theory—work that would influence Gottfried Leibniz,51 through him Alan Turing,52 and therefore the creation of the modern computer.
In 1272, Llull had a vision on Mt. Randa in Majorca, Spain, in which he saw God’s attributes not only mathematically and hierarchically infused throughout all and everything, but also indexed to the letters of the alphabet—the divine Creation as computer." [Louv]
[Fleming:] "The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and granted a formal royal charter in 1662. It was the fruit of a gradual maturation of associations among modern-minded scientists animated by the spirit of Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, a utopian novel in which advances in scientific knowledge move in harmony with the purification of religion and the moral improvement of the human race. As we shall soon see when we consider some of the important roles played by Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry in creating the spiritual vocabulary of the Enlightenment, the concept of “the advancement of learning” typically implied that the augmentation of scientific knowledge consisted of both material and spiritual aspects. The setting of Bacon’s novel is an imaginary island, the name of which (Bensalem) means “Son of Peace.” Its central educational institution, Solomon’s House, invokes a proto-Masonic concept of wisdom."
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