New Spain was government, but New France is private. New Spain came to gain wealth and land for Spain and to convert others to Catholicism. New France came trying to find a Northwest passage and Fur trade.
<span>Although it is quite clear that Roman Catholic thinkers, notably Copernicus, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), and Rene Descartes (1596-1650), played a major role in the early part of the scientific revolution, the later period does seem to be dominated by developments in Protestant countries, even through the Protestant</span>
