“Alongside the desacralisation and secularisation of public life,” Rovelli argues, “which passed from the hands of divine kings to those of citizens, came the desacralisation and secularisation of knowledge… law was not handed down once and for all but was instead questioned again and again.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/13/anaximander-and-the-nature-of-science-by-carlo-rovelli-review-the-ancient-master-of-the-universe