The Popes And Science the History of the Papal Relations to Science During the
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The greatest triumph of the Church during the earlier centuries is to be found in the magnificent organization of the hos- 280 THE POPES AND SCIENCE pital system and the anticipation of so many things in the organization of hospital work, the care of patients and even the prevention of conta^ous disease, that we are apt to think of as essentially modern. THE CHURCH AND THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD. There is a very generally accepted false impression with regard to the attitude maintained by the Chur...ch during the Middle Ages, especially toward what is known as the experimental method in the gaining of knowledge, or as we would now^ say, in the study of science. It is commonly supposed that at least before the sixteenth century, though of course in modem times it has had to change its attitude to accord with the advances of modern science, the Church was decidedly opposed to the experi- mental method, and that the great ecclesiastical schol- ars of the wonderful period of the rise of the univer- sities were all absolute in their confidence in authority and their dependence on the deductive method as the only means of arriving at truth.
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