Age of Empiricism

The development of polymer education will be divided into three time frames. First, Age of Empiricism - to 1938, where the key word might be art. Second, The Mark Connection - 1940 to 1974, where the key word is science. Third, Recognition - 1974 to present. 

Yet the exceptions were not so few, as Mayr had already suggested. In his Washington lecture he had gestured broadly to the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries as a period whose thinking was dominated by Platonism, but a decade later, when he returned to the narrower question of the development of systematics, Mayr described the hundred years between Linnaeus s 1758 Systema Naturae and Darwin s Origin as a transitional period, the age of empiricism. 

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