Tuesday, October 5, 2010

SCIENCE IN LATIN WEST DURING MEDIEVAL AGE

EUROPEAN COUNTRY
Early Medieval Age
  • migration or barbarian invasion
  • deurbanization
  • study of nature was pursued more, for practical reason than abstract inquiry
  • Educational Reform - 7 Liberal Arts: rhetoric, grammar, dialectic, arithmetic, geometric, music, astronomy

High Medieval Age

  • birth of medieval universities
  • rediscovery of the works of Aristotle
  • Latin translation of the main works of ancient philosophers and thinkers
  • Grosseteste (Oxford Franciscan School), Aristotle's dual path of reasoning from particular observation to universal law.
  • Bacon- observation, hypothesis, experimental and verification

Late Medieval Age

  • William Of Occam (Principle Of Parsimony)
  • Jean Buridan (most brilliant art master of MA), theory of Impetus
  • Thomas Bradwardine- distingished dynamics to kinematics, instantaneous velocity, mean speed theorem.
  • Nicole Oresme- published the heliocentric theory, optics
  • Black death(mid 14th century)
  • Catholic Church disintegration (Papacy)

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