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…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…which dominated so strongly over all others that it prevented many important ideas from being further explored and kept countless more discoveries from ever being made for almost two thousand years. This was Aristotelian physics, which when finally overthrown released such a floodgate of scientific advancement that it was known as the Scientific Revolution. It is hard to imagine where we might be today had someone only broken that barrier long before it eventually was.