Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Butterfield , Herbert (1997-04-01), The Origins of Modern Science, Simon and Schuster, Retrieved on 2014-01-21
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    21 JAN 2014

     The Scientific Revolution Outshines the Rest of History

    It [the Scientific Revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and the Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere intemal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom .... It looms so large as the real origin of the modem world and of the modem mentality that our customary periodisation of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance.
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