• Theoriginalthon
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    14 hours ago

    Just read the opening parts of the bible and you begin to understand how backwards peoples knowledge was in the past.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      Read the novel [or watch the movie] ‘The Name of the Rose’ by Umberto Eco.

      One of the themes of the story is showing the shift from educated Europeans getting their knowledge from ancient books to them doing science and investigating the world.