idk sounds kinda Calvinistic to me hehe
Anyways I think that a big part in the role of the (Catholic) Church in science in history up to around the Contra-reformation can be attributed to its unique position in society up to that point; the ability of monks and clergy to read and write was, in general, one of the pillars of its position of power. It’s not something that was jealously guarded or anything as they taught people how to do these things, but it’s the one institution of the time, especially in the early medieval era and before the printing press, that really could divest all these resources and manpower towards these endeavours (a court would need its few clerks that can read and write to keep an eye on taxation, for example), and thus it did. I don’t really think there were particularly nefarious purposes about ‘controlling the flow and development’ of it moreso as that it’s something that they could do, felt a religious need to do, and that it’s what made them useful for all the other powers around.
It’s quite similar to the scientists of the Islamic Golden Age (and indeed, they copied and learned a lot from them) - there’s a religious drive to learn more about the world, but also the unique position where these people get the opportunity to do so.
Incidentally, as with the Islamic Golden Age’s scholars’ dwindling and ultimately falling aside thanks to the Mongolian invasions from the east and the Crusades to the west, the Church as the leading authority in the sciences in the western world kind of fell away with the advent of the printing press, Reformation, Contra-Reformation, and the investment of more centralized states, their leaders, and an increasingly wealthy merchant and burgher class in the sciences from the Renaissance onwards (ironically, largely initially driven by the Church in Italy, although less so in the case of the northern Renaissance)
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anyways can I now talk about how the Republic of Venice formally established a Ministry of Health in the mid 16th century after a longer-running policy of paying for doctors to come to the city, after which the institute immediately began monitoring the spreading of disease throughout the city and administering variolation (essentially, exposure to items belonging/held by patients of diseases like the smallpox) in order to build up herd immunity, keeping an eye out for the health of even the poorest groups in society, supervising any and all physicians and barber-surgeons in lagoontown, as well as working together with the not!ministries of food safety and safe disposing of animal remains
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they don’t really smell unless you’re there when it’s 40C and there’s approximately twenty thousand more american tourists than there should be tbh
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That does sound like the norm for Venice I won’t lie
I know I’m a bit of a pioneer but the solution to most travel woes is to not go on a holiday during the summer
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Visiting the ruins of Knossos in 40 degree heat with very little wind was certainly a choice of my life.
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Turkey in the summer was rough, you got hit by the heat like it was a physical force
I spent the time watching the Ashes, it was great
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Italy, the famously not-hot country.
It’s perfectly pleasant outside of June/July/August!
If only Akamito were here
Sadly his ferry to Italy tried to do a kick flip and he fell off 
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the yearly sacrifice of the ultra-rich to The Deep is mandatory, unfortunately. shame it was his turn this year
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If he was so rich how come loras, who lives in his walls, didn’t steal all his stuff
who’s to say that i haven’t
me’s to say, i haven’t because his stuff isn’t worth the labour costs of nicking it
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“Our city only reeks for one quarter of the year (when everyone wants to be there).” Venice-heads can’t win.
At least it’s still better than New York - I assume Venice discovered bins more recently than this year like they did.
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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/app-5
This expresses my peeve so well.
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Did both the draenei and the darkspear heritage quests.
Bit funny that I did the darkspear on what’s supposed to be a revantusk, but I make do (won’t wear it on her)
Alternatively go north on summer vacations and south on spring/autumn vacations.
Today’s peeve: opening a video on youtube about a topic that interests me, then the youtuber’s voice is immediately like nails on a chalkboard. I close the tab and sulk.
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