"The sixteenth century of our era saw the disruption of Western Christianity and the rise of modern science. ... Copernicus and Vesalius may be chosen as representative figures.... Giordano Bruno was the martyr... the cause for which he suffered was not that of science, but that of free imaginative speculation. In his execution there was an unconscious symbolism: for the subsequent tone of scientific thought has contained distrust of his type of general speculativeness."
Whitehead, A.N(1985) Science and the Modern World. Free Association Books, London. p1-2
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