September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 10m
English
Laying the Foundations of Modern Science
It was 1548. King Edward VI was in the second year of what would turn out to be a seven-year reign. Like all monarchs, he had the ability to, among other cool things, issue proclamations. The ten-year-old king likely leaned on his advisers to issue an interesting one. Almost a century after the Bible rolled off the press, King Edward VI issued “A Proclamation Against Those That Doeth Innouate” (figure 3-1).*
Figure 3-1
King Edward VI’s 1548 “Proclamation Against Those That Doeth Innouate”

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