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    Lynn Thorndike (24 July 1882, in Lynn, Massachusetts, US – 28 December 1965, New York City) was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy...
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    Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia...
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  • of Boston John Thorndike, (b. 1942), an American writer Joseph J. Thorndike (1913–2005), an American editor and writer Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an...
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  • Thorndike, and the brother of Lynn Thorndike, an American historian of medieval science and alchemy, and Edward Lee Thorndike known for being the father...
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    as one of scientific backwardness. Historians like George Sarton and Lynn Thorndike criticized how the Renaissance affected science, arguing that progress...
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    Babylonia and the Bible. Styx Publications, 2000. Limited preview online. Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science. The eagle-stone is defined...
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    1468-0289.1962.tb00059.x. JSTOR 2591885. Thorndike, Lynn; Johnson, F.R.; Kristeller, P. O.; Lockwood, D.P.; Thorndike, L. (1943). "Some Remarks on the Question...
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    to climb a mountain for pleasure since antiquity, was disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg describes...
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    to climb a mountain for pleasure since antiquity, was disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943.: 69–74  Mount Ventoux was climbed by Jean Buridan, on his way...
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  • Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian. He was a professor of medieval history at Princeton from 1933 to 1937...
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