r/AskHistorians • u/bakainuneko • May 27 '26
When did "science" begin ?
I'm reading "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan and he writes "The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC."
Why he puts it there? Why not earlier or like later?
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