An Old Science book from 1650

[Fake Messiah]

I stumbled on this science book from the year 1650 called: "Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri" and it is a pretty big catalog of animal species, but also you can see some Jesus driven animals that people didn't put in because they had evidence but because they felt it from god.















Still you got to admit it's more accurate then most of textbooks kids use in christian homeschooling.

[Little lunch]

That's cool man.

[ignoramus]

I'd hate to be a sceptic 500 years ago!
I'd be secretly laughing at everything! (while agreeing with the authorities of course!)

The Earth was fucking woo central 500 years ago!

[Exian]

So people just went about their day- going to work, eating dinner with their family, doing lawn maintenance- all while believing a bird with a human head existed?

[Minimalist]

Old news even by 1650

[TubbyTubby]

But still, a Christian apologist will readily insist that a snake can talk yet dismiss a 17th century multi-headed eel as myth.

The flaws are so blatantly obvious, but only to us heathens.

[Minimalist]

That's what happens when you take off the Holy Blinders.

[abaris]

So people just went about their day- going to work, eating dinner with their family, doing lawn maintenance- all while believing a bird with a human head existed?

Don't forget the omnipresence of death back then. 1650 was 2 years after the 30 years war ended and between the regular outbreaks of the black death. Apart from the fact that pushing 40 was considered old age back then. People, in the largest part of the world, toiled the fields for some feudal lord.

So, no, they didn't just go about their day in our sense of the word. They were much more focussed on the next life, since it was their only hope. And science was still in it's infancy. Galen was still the ultimate authority when it came to medicine. Humoral pathology was state of the art, even if you could afford a doctor, who, most likely, would only perform some bloodletting as the ultimate therapy.

I happen to own two calendaries from 1647 and 1649. The one from 1649 holds handwritten notes by some monk where he talks about visiting the community and looking after the sick. A very different mindset, indeed. Our mindset would be more fitting for the much further removed classical age than it would fit into the world, only some 360 years in the past.

[Aoi Magi]

Wow, I like those illustrations. I kind of want some of those in my pet collection! so cute

I wonder if in the future scientists can create these, I'd definitely buy them.

[Exian]

So people just went about their day- going to work, eating dinner with their family, doing lawn maintenance- all while believing a bird with a human head existed?

Don't forget the omnipresence of death back then. 1650 was 2 years after the 30 years war ended and between the regular outbreaks of the black death. Apart from the fact that pushing 40 was considered old age back then. People, in the largest part of the world, toiled the fields for some feudal lord.

So, no, they didn't just go about their day in our sense of the word. They were much more focussed on the next life, since it was their only hope. And science was still in it's infancy. Galen was still the ultimate authority when it came to medicine. Humoral pathology was state of the art, even if you could afford a doctor, who, most likely, would only perform some bloodletting as the ultimate therapy.

I happen to own two calendaries from 1647 and 1649. The one from 1649 holds handwritten notes by some monk where he talks about visiting the community and looking after the sick. A very different mindset, indeed. Our mindset would be more fitting for the much further removed classical age than it would fit into the world, only some 360 years in the past.

You know what though, I sometimes like to look at history with the idea that humans haven't changed that much. Sure, the culture has as you've said, but on a basic personal level, I bet they weren't all that different. That is to say, they varied widely just as we do. For every religious text or science book from those times that would have you believe the words contained in them were the center of the world, there were probably people who just didn't give a shit. A moderate for every extreme, at least somewhere. This is all besides the point, though.