Science in Medieval through Renaissance

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Science, the world’s greatest achievement, has been around for thousands of years. From anatomy to biology, from astronomy to astrology, from physics to quantum physics, all this couldn’t have happened without the help of our ancestors. This was a big step for humankind, many things would be achieved and those things for help the future. Science in medieval Europe underwent numerous changes due in part to inventions and religious beliefs. These advances were reflected throughout European literature, through the renaissance. Inventions that were manufactured made the everyday life easier for people from medieval through the renaissance. Science also challenged a lot of religious beliefs and the church then starting going against science.
As time would go by many people had hard time doing many things due to the fact that they took really long to either finish or create. People were finding alternative ways of making life much easier for people, these were called scientists. Ideas to creating new things were being shared in scripts and these ideas were spread throughout Europe. One of the top man made invention was the vertical windmill. This windmill would help grind grain and some even pumped salt water for salt making. These machine only worked when one force was applied to it, wind. Wind would be the biggest source energy during the medieval time since electricity wasn’t yet being used. Other than the windmill the watermill was a great invention as well. Watermills were applied to boats to help move in water a quicker than just rowing. These mills had to be improved from the ancient manuscript due to the bad translations by others through centuries. Another invention that would be used would be the mechanical clock. The clock wo...

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...came to be, No one knew exactly and looked at religion for answers. Religion has always been the “answer” for everything and science has always been closer to the answer than religion. When members of the church started realizing that science was challenging them they got frustrated and punished those who opposed the word and work of god. This would be the most important turn in scientific revolution.
As the renaissance period approached a couple of scientist started to prove the theories that were based on wrong information. Sir Isaac newton, one of the greatest renaissance physicist and mathematician, would state that the earth wouldn’t be the center of the universe but in fact it would revolve around the sun which also wouldn't be the center of the universe. Newton stated that the sun would be the gravitational force that would make the earth revolve around it.

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