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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (252642)	12/31/2007 9:58:06 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine we we talking about galileo who bridged the two centuries 1564 to 1642 with the contoversy fully inthe 17th century ...do the math. as to pascal ,well ,he was born in 1623...died 1662 ps the seventeenth century is the sixteen hundrends like the 19th century is the eighteen hundreds remember how we lived in the 20th century but all the dates began with 19..i can see you you got confused. pss neoplatonism was revived in the 15th century (fourteen hundreds)and was the defining aspect of renaissance thought ....the new math revolutionised art ,astronomy and architecture look it up

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (252642)	12/31/2007 12:24:33 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

re scholasticisms demise....and your error in substituting the term "scholastic"establisment for the "scientific "establishment . Medieval philosophy had culminated in the cumulative achievements of scholasticism, a grand system of thought developed by generations of patient scholars employing neoplatonic and Aristotelean philosophy in the service of traditional Christian theology. But by the end of the fifteenth century, confidence in the success of this enterprise had eroded, and many thinkers tried to make a fresh start by rejecting such extensive reliance on the authority of earlier scholars. Just as religious reformers challenged ecclesiastical authority and made individual believers responsible for their own relation to god, prominent Renaissance thinkers proposed an analogous elimination of all appeals to authority in education and science.http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/3t.htm