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:The Scientific Revolution came emerged over centuries. Some of the key factors to make it possible were by definition generational. For example, one of the very late developments was the creation of a professionalized institutional structure of science such that students learned from masters, masters corresponded freely and professionally (and didn't simply burn all their notes when they died), and standards of the trade could emerge. The importance of institutionalization alone in making modern science possible should not be understated. (I cannot recall where I read mostly on this point in particular.) Also, as science itself by most technical definitions is tends to be largely about a shared methodology, then the Revolution has to largely consist of people working together such that there are people to ''share'' that methodology ''with'' (and thus to agree on a common technical code). [[User:SamuelRiv|SamuelRiv]] ([[User talk:SamuelRiv|talk]]) 20:31, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

::Thank you, but I'm aware of that and all the history, as I've studied it (and I alluded to the history you described by quoting Newton). If you read my question again, you'll see that I'm asking a fairly specific kind of question that historians (like Frances Yates and others) have touched upon in their work, but since history changes as we accumulate more knowledge over time, I'm asking about recent evaluations of pre-scientific revolution thinkers, particularly in terms of newer information we've discovered about them. [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 20:43, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

:I forget where I read this, probably either [[Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea]] or ''Change Is The Only Constant'' by Ben Orlin, but [[Archimedes]] came as close as is possible to discovering calculus without doing so. I don't know the implications that would've had, but it seems like a decent starting point. [[Special:Contributions/71.112.180.130|71.112.180.130]] ([[User talk:71.112.180.130|talk]]) 21:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)