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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Henri Matisse		Thursday May 21, 2026
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About Sir Herbert Butterfield

	Sir Herbert Butterfield
	(1900-1979) The Origins of Modern Science, 1949 - Cambridge historian,.

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Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom.... It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance.

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