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Originally Posted by Nate the great
That would depend on how you define science, and why you think it didn't exist until after the 1200s.
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I'll go with the late Susan Sontag's definition: science is the process of
disproving theories.
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I was quoting Larry Niven. He said that The Inferno was the first SF in that it was based in the most up to date understanding of the world at that time.
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Niven might consider it SF, but I don't believe he considered it a novel.
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Dennis