Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.5

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c6.5

Becquerel's discovery of radioactive substances is thus a quarter less than three hundred years from Bacon's first advocacy of experimental and inductive methods. The "long and barren period" between the scientific activity of ancient Greece and that of modern Europe, described by Whewell as the "stationary period of science," was drawing to a close in Bacon's time. The age was, however, yet "dark" enough to be condemned by him in the following words:

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