The origins of modern science, what we call today the “Scientific Revolution,” the period of time that originated modern science (what we assume to be a rational, experimental activity) were rooted in what we would call “irrational” subjects of the occult sciences such as alchemy, astrology, and Pythagorean number mysticism. How did the occult sciences influence the course of natural philosophy from 1500 to 1700? Give specific examples from Copernicus through Isaac Newton to illustrate.

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