SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



looting expeditions, and covering them with the 

 cloak of missionary work. 



VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR MORE LIGHT 



The mental reaction of these discoveries on 

 philosophy and astronomy followed immediately. 

 In the same year in which Sebastian Cabot set 

 out on his trip across the North Atlantic, Savona- 

 rola was killed for his opposition to the church. 

 While Columbus was making his second and 

 third trip to the West Indies, Luther was girding 

 his loins against Rome, and three years before 

 the discovery of the Straits of Magellan, he nailed 

 his theses on the church door in Wittenberg. 

 One year after the conquest of Peru, England 

 threw off the papal yoke, the Anabaptists assem- 

 bled in Munster, and Luther completed his trans- 

 lation of the Bible. While the foundations of 

 Lima and Buenos Ayres were being laid in South 

 America, the first copies of the translated Bible 

 were on the press, thanks to the invention of 

 printing by Gutenberg, in 1438. The first enemy 

 of orthodox religion, a new religion, had arisen. 



Science, the second and more dangerous enemy 



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