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Medieval mistakes built modern science

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Dr Cristian Ispir
Dec 03, 2025
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CFP: The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Sight ...

We measure the medieval mind by its errors. Four humours governing personality and health. Earth fixed at the cosmos’s center while crystalline spheres carried planets in perfect circles. Vision explained as rays shooting from the eyes to grasp objects in the world.

These theories were spectacularly, magnificently wrong.

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