Timeline for Are there any (natural) scientists in Middle-earth?
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| Jan 14, 2020 at 1:32 | history | edited | EvilSnack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 0:15 | history | edited | EvilSnack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | Yeah, the thing with the Elves, is that the Noldor literally had thousands of years to just literally ask Aulë or Manwë or Melkor how things worked. The Sindar queen Melian in the first age was a literal forest nymph, basically. By the third age, the Sindar and Noldor were pretty much living amongst each other and had had ore thousands of years to share knowledge. Lore is going to beat scientific method when your root source is "gods present during and participating in creation" | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 4:49 | history | edited | EvilSnack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected many horrible mistakes of orthography
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| Nov 14, 2019 at 2:20 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Or Dwarves, who certainly studied the properties of the various ores they mined. | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 16:15 | comment | added | toolforger | Oh no, science is not about matter, it is about reality, observation, and prediction. If matter responds to the will of people, then it will become much harder to device repeatable experiments, but you can still do science. This is actually what we're doing in sociology and psychology today - there is science in these areas, it's somewhat obscured by many frauds and the progress isn't great, but it is there. | |
| Nov 12, 2019 at 23:23 | comment | added | chepner | Considering most Men aren't aware of their status as "visitors", I'd say that's a non-issue regarding their psychology. | |
| Nov 12, 2019 at 6:25 | history | answered | EvilSnack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |