Can you be more specific and add more context? This has happened plenty of times across human history.
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#1: Bacon
#2: Descartes
#3: Copernicus
#4: Newton
#5: Scientific Revolution
#6: Enclosure
#7: Heliocentrism
#8: Copernicus
I don't know if #3 and #8 are right.
Answer:
yes boston massacre should not prevented