Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early 1500s.
The analysis contributes to challenging the “lone genius” idea of scientific revolutions. Instead, it shows that knowledge about the positions of the stars was widespread and used in a variety of disciplines, researchers report October 23 in Science Advances.
“We can see here the first formation of a proto-international scientific community,” says computational historian Matteo Valleriani of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
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