Before the scientific revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known, enshrined in ancient writings, institutions and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb, which were, however, entrenched as dogmas, along with many falsehoods.
Antes de la revolución científica, se creía que todo lo importante, digno de saberse, ya era conocido, consagrado en antiguos libros, instituciones, y en algunas reglas de comportamiento genuinamente útiles. las cuales estaban, sin embargo, arraigadas como dogmas, junto a muchas mentiras.