Spain had the Inquisition , proud that fewer works were published in Spain in the eighteenth century than had been published in the sixteenth . An oppressive censorship meant that in every field of intellect except orthodox theology , Spain lagged behind the rest of Europe . The Royal Society used mariners as its corps of observers . It drafted lists of questions for sailors to investigate and interrogated them when they returned from their voyages .1212 . Drayton , Knowledge and Empire , p . 233 . Many such...











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