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> According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen Is it a familiar story? I've been told all my life th
by riffraff 4y ago
> According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen
Is it a familiar story?
I've been told all my life that we had great thinkers and scientists since the ancient times. There were children cartoons about Archimedes, arab scientists and the likes when I was a kid in the '80s.
- nhchris 4y ago> I've been told all my life The younger generations are the target audience, who will believe these lies about your education. As old times slip from living memory, they are rewritten into a caricature of themselves to serve the current zeitgeist. This is not an isolated case, e.g. this article [1] about appropriating babywearing fashion that tried to gaslight us into thinking Europeans simply had no way of carrying their children prior to strollers, and so we should feel appropriately guilty over using modern baby carriers based on "indigenous knowledge". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29150086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29150086
- skinnymuch 4y agoWhy are you against the notion that Europe has taken a lot from the world?
- UncleMeat 4y agoThis is a professional review of an academic history book. "Familiar story" means "common narrative in History of Science academia until recent years." It doesn't have much to do with laypeople.