History of Science
- Pierre Duhem begins publication of Le Système du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic in Paris.
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“The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
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