Skokie
Banned
Vivisections are not science in its modern sense as they are made to watch things in their natural state.
That is a rarefied definition; vivisection is used to this day in science.
Most of the names you give are related to either astronomy (the cosmos could be mathematized because it wasn't regarded as a physical world in the strict sense) and medicine (that indeed had a proto-scientific method, but medicine has to get rid of the humoral theory to advance, and that happened OTL after the Enlightement, so I have totally ignored medicine for that matter)
The only examples that have a point for me are Ptolemy (wich was a follower of Aristotelian naturalism, in a time in which the mistifed hellenistic schools were much more mainstream, so he could not have sparked an enlightement in any way), Hero and Archimedes
So you concede that science existed before Galileo?
(whih, BTW, created a lot of controversy with their work. A lot of effort was made in readapt their conclussions, for they could imply that some mathemathical forms have movement, something that platonist ideology regarded as little less than blasphemy) Still, Galileo is the first one that did science with a full conciousness of doing something different to the established method, so my point still stands.
Galileo's "full consciousness" is irrelevant. It would be correct to say he helped spearhead the modern scientific revolution, perhaps the greatest in history. But he wasn't the first to do science. Science emerged independently in several places, most notably in the Mediterranean and China, thousands of years before Galileo. Galileo actually had access to a decent amount of ancient science.