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during these experiments led directly to his widespread promotion of the drug and the
subsequent development of hippie culture."
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83 ..."Dark Ages"...
"It is generally accepted that the concept (Dark Ages)was created by Petrarch in the 1330s.
Writing of those who had come before him, he said, "Amidst the errors there shone forth
men of genius, no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness
and dense gloom." Christian writers had traditional metaphors of "light versus darkness" to
describe "good versus evil". Petrarch was the first to co-opt the metaphor and give it secular
meaning by reversing its application. Classical Antiquity, so long considered the "dark" age
for its lack of Christianity, was now seen by Petrarch as the age of "light" because of its
cultural achievements, while Petrarch's time, lacking such cultural achievements, was seen
as the age of darkness.
As an Italian, Petrarch saw the Roman Empire and the classical period as expressions of
Italian greatness. He spent much of his time traveling through Europe rediscovering and
republishing the classic Latin and Greek texts. He wanted to restore the classical Latin
language to its former purity. Humanists saw the preceding 900-year period as a time of
stagnation. They saw history unfolding, not along the religious outline of St. Augustine's Six
Ages of the World, but in cultural (or secular) terms through the progressive developments of
classical ideals, literature, and art.
Petrarch wrote that history had had two periods: the classic period of the Greeks and
Romans, followed by a time of darkness, in which he saw himself as still living. Humanists
believed one day the Roman Empire would rise again and restore classic cultural purity, and
so by the late 14th and early 15th century, humanists such as Leonardo Bruni believed they
had attained this new age, and that a third, Modern Age had begun. The age before their
own, which Petrarch had labeled dark, thus became a "middle" age between the classic and
the modern."
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84 "... the basic laws of physics..."
"The early modern period is seen as a flowering of the Renaissance, in what is often known
as the "Scientific Revolution", viewed as a foundation of modern science. Historians like
Howard Margolis hold that the Scientific Revolution began in 1543, when Nicolaus
Copernicus received the first copy of his De Revolutionibus, printed in Nuremberg
(Nürnberg) by Johannes Petreius. Most of its contents had been written years prior, but the
publication had been delayed. Copernicus died soon after receiving the copy.
Further significant advances were made over the following century by Galileo Galilei,
Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, and Blaise Pascal. During the early seventeenth
century, Galileo made extensive use of experimentation to validate physical theories, which
is the key idea in the modern scientific method. Galileo formulated and successfully tested
several results in dynamics, in particular the Law of Inertia. In Galileo's Two New Sciences,
a dialogue between the characters Simplicio and Salviati discuss the motion of a ship (as a
moving frame) and how that ship's cargo is indifferent to its motion. Huygens used the
motion of a boat along a Dutch canal to illustrate an early form of the conservation of
momentum.
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