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The Popes and Science

by James J. Walsh

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Appendix I

OPPOSITION TO SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.390
The Popes as patrons of scientific education.
Swift on genius and assinine opposition.
Allston on truth in unusual form.
“Nonsense” and “absurd” on scientists’ tongues.
Jordan on human conservatism.
Galileo’s letter to Kepler, on “logic” and science.
Huxley on Galileo.
De Morgan on other cases.
Dogmatism and folly.
Persecution of scientists.
Harvey, Vesalius, Servetus, Steno.
Not confined to old times, Jenner, Auenbrugger, Laennec, Thomas Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Semmelweiss.
Opposition in other sciences.
Ohm.
Young men and discoveries.
Pasteur and rabies.
Our universities and economics.
Conservatism still active.
The lesson.

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