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The idea of the Dark Ages extending from the fall of the Roman Empire well into the Christian Middle Ages is no longer fashionable among scholars. Among other things, it neglects the persistence of the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople (Byzantium) for a thousand years after the fall of Rome. This period also saw the great flowering of Islamic civilisation, mathematics, science and culture, partly based in what is now Spain, under the Abbasid caliphate. Celtic culture also flourished during this period.
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Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida I.iii.
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E.M.W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture (London: Chatto and Windus, 1943) p. 23.
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Shakespeare, op. cit.
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J.G.Crowther, Six Great Scientists (London: Hamilton, 1955), p. 32.
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Ibid, p. 34.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid, p. 36.
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J.G. Crowther, op.cit, p. 73.
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Ibid, p. 75.
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Ibid, p. 44.
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Francis Bacon, Of the Wisdom of the Ancients, ch. 26.
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See Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).
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René Descartes, Meditation VI.
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Alexander Pope, Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton.
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Eyres, H. (2017). Aquinas to Newton. In: Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40603-9_3
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