"When Ben Jonson presented a masque entitled "News from the New World," his new world was not the newly found continent of North America, but the new world of science, the world revealed by the telescope of Galileo."
— Ben Jonson

January 1, 1970

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I. Bernard Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life (2005)