The Origins of Modern Science

Our modern idea that medieval science is an oxymoron is itself wrong. Natural philosophy was a live discipline inheriting Greek Aristotelian science from the 13th century onwards and thinking some really quite creative thought experiments, particularly in the 15th century for various reasons. Now, it's very dangerous to say there is one course for the scientific revolution. There isn'tOne course for thescientific revolution. But I think one of the central ones was the way in which Aristotle was challenged within the Reformation. That means moving away from Aristotle's four causes to a more limited number of causes. It also critically means not trusting the human brain quite as much to reason its way to the truth.