.@Ada_Palmer explains the big important difference between the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: "Brunelleschi, who built Florence’s famous beautiful dome, deliberately burned all of his notes and schematics so that nobody else would be able to replicate his work. That is an inventor and an engineer. But this is not a servant of human progress. This is actually a saboteur of human progress - who deliberately makes progress and then tries to cut it off at that point so that no one…