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Article: The Atlantic Vision: Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science.
- Article from:
- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Olaus Rudbeck, Sr. (1630-1702) was on the cutting edge of the careful investigation of nature which characterized the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. He also devoted a great deal of his energies to creating an elaborate history of the Swedish people that sacrificed scientific objectivity to establish the origin of Greco-Roman culture in ancient Norse precedents. Did this bizarre study in mistaken chronology and erroneous philology represent merely an aberration in the scientific world of the late seventeenth century?
Gunnar Eriksson argues that Rudbeck and others like him, far from being cranks, represent a main current of scientific thought in the ...
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