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In the 16th and 17th centuries, European scientists began increasingly applying quantitative measurements to the measurement of physical phenomena on the Earth.
Galileo maintained strongly that mathematics provided a kind of necessary certainty that could be compared to God's: " With regard to those few mathematical propositions which the human intellect does understand, I believe its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.
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