Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it
HazyHerbivore@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoWeird you’d call ideas that long predate rationalism and the scientific method science
Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it
HazyHerbivore@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoWeird you’d call ideas that long predate rationalism and the scientific method science
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Predate rationalism? Modern rationalism and the scientific method came up in the 16th and 17th centuries, and was built on ancient foundations.
Phlogiston theory was developed in the 17th century, and took about 100 years to gather the evidence to make it infeasible, after the discovery of oxygen.
Luminiferous aether was disproved beginning in the late 19th century and the nail in the coffin happened by the early 20th, when Einstein’s theories really started taking off.
HazyHerbivore@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The aether idea was floating around since the ancient Greeks lol