Resumen de Luther's legacy
There is something thrilling about how the rebel monk Martin Luther defied his accusers. According to his supporters, he uttered these eloquent words of defence in 1521 before the Diet of Worms, a papal council, when his liberty and possibly his life were on the line. It was four years earlier, on 31 October 1517, now almost exactly 500 years ago, that tradition says he nailed his "95 theses" decrying the practices of the Roman Catholic church to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg in present-day Germany, and so kicked off what became the Protestant Reformation. Here, Ball determines whether Luther's legacy led the a scientific revolution.
