seventeenth-century

Americans need to understand that everything their Founding Fathers wrote is just footnotes on the ideas that came out of the political tumult of seventeenth-century Britain.

These would have been extremely painful worsening tooth infections eventually resulting in sepsis or a brain infection, and death: > In seventeenth-century London — and for that matter most other places — teeth were a leading cause of death, owing to poor oral hygiene and no effective means to treat infections at a time when extractions — without anesthesia — were performed by the local barber.

So we can prototype Martian survival systems in advance, and simulate them, prior to actually going to Mars, something that seventeenth-century colonists not only lacked the means to do, but which likely never even occurred to most of them in the first place.

Compare and contrast: >I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien (sic) to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.

Fortunately, the rest of mathematics has moved past the seventeenth-century style of "Here's my result, the proof is secret".

An excellent book on this topic is "A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England." It examines what "truth" means in a scientific context by going back to its roots as a discipline.

Fortunately, the rest of mathematics has moved past the seventeenth-century style of "Here's my result, the proof is secret".

An excellent book on this topic is "A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England." It examines what "truth" means in a scientific context by going back to its roots as a discipline.