The institutions behind the scientific revolution earned trust by building the exposure of their own errors into their core and celebrating it, not by having more information or better presses.

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  A scientific institution, in contrast, gained authority because it had strong self-correcting mechanisms that exposed and rectified the errors of the institution itself.

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  First, the self-correcting mechanisms are built into the core of the institutions rather than being a peripheral add-on. Second, these institutions publicly celebrate self-correcting instead of denying it.

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  Early modern Europe saw the foundation of exactly such curation institutions, and it was these institutions, rather than the printing press or specific books like On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, that constituted the bedrock of the scientific revolution.

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