Immutable Laws
Worldviews, particularly from the 1400s on, enabled modern science, engineering: Laws of Thermodynamics
One major invention in Europe during the first half of the fifteenth century (1400s) facilitated a general shift in worldview, from one dominated by superstition and the perception of a random, irrational universe to one governed by laws and consistency. Europe’s discovery of moveable type (Gutenberg) revolutionized printing even more than had China’s s…
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