User:Jtwsaddress42/Projects/Project 7/Sections/Chapter 7/Phase II - The Scientific Revolution, A Culling of Ritual


 * Many of the Founders of Chemistry and Physics considered themselves to be Alchemists
 * Crisis of Authority - multiple competing claims to the truth - How to decide?
 * Rational Experimental Analysis, Empiricism, & Skepticism - Galileo, Bacon, Descartes
 * Empiricism as a method of resolving disputed claims to authority concerning the truths of physical reality
 * Reexamination of the Alchemical Database leads to A Separation of The Material Quest from The Spiritual Quest via A Culling of Rituals and seeds the sciences of Chemistry and Physics. The Spiritual Quest becomes a Occult Tradition.
 * Scientific Method emerges.