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for any element contradicting the traditional way solutions permitting the
assimilation were found immediately.
the mixing of Church administration and modern scientific knowledge,
although beneficial for the spreading of learning, hampered important
Greek thinkers, as Chrysanthos notaras in this case, to accept in their
work the new scientific theories of Copernicus, Galileo or newton. “It is
about the issue of the earth movement, the acceptance of the heliocentric
theory about the universe, which, at the beginning of the 18 th century was
a controversial ideological problem, difficult to overtake in the Greek
education because of difficulties raised by the official acceptance by the
Church of the geocentric theory”. 44
the scientific revolution is, undoubtedly, a phenomenon rooted in
the technical, scientific and cultural achievements of the occident. Still,
this phenomenon did not remain circumscribed to the West, but spread
freely to the eastern margins of the continent, regardless the ceaseless
historical religious and political antagonisms. In the southeast of europe,
this transmission of knowledge followed the historical particularities of
the orthodox area; thereafter, a contextual approach – opened toward a
general orthodox Balkan-russian dimension on one side, and to a broader,
european on the other – should be considered when talking about the
beginnings of the modern science in eastern europe.
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