Pundit - History of Science

University of Otago philosophy professor Alan Musgrave on the three great revolutions in scientific thought before modern times - the Copernican Revolution (c. 1550 - 1650), the Chemical Revolution (c. 1750 - 1800), and the Darwinian Revolution (c. 1850 - 1900). In Philip Gosse's Omphalos (1857), his hypothesis was "God created the universe a few thousand years ago AS IF uniformitarian geology and evolutionary biology were true".