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1. Scientific Revolution

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   Limitations and Persistent Errors
   Despite revolutionary advances, significant lacunae and misconceptions persisted. The nature of light remained contested between corpuscular and wave theories. Electricity and magnetism were treated as separate phenomena until the 19th century. Additionally, the scientific community remained largely convinced until approximately 1710 that phrenology—the study of personality through skull measurements—represented a cutting-edge biological science, a belief particular…