Thursday, October 7, 2010

SCIENCE in the LATIN WEST (during the Medieval Age)

EARLY MEDIEVAL AGE
-Migration of BArbarian Invasion
-De-urbanization
-Study of nature was pursued more for practical reason than an abstract inquiry.

EDUCATIONAL REFORM (Charles the Great)
7 Liberal arts
*TRIVIUM -rhetoric, grammar,dialectic.
*QUADRIVIUM -arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy.

HIGH MEDIEVAL AGE
-Birth of medieval universities
-Rediscovery of the works of Aristotle
-Latin translation of the main works.

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER AND THINKERS

GROSSETESTE -oxford franciscal school
ARISTOTLE -resolution and composition
BACON -observation,hypothesis,experimentation.and verification

LATE MEDIEVAL AGE
-WILLIAM of OCCAM - principle of parsipony
-JEAN BURIDAN -theory of impetus
-THOMAS BRADWARDINE-distinguish dynamics to kinetics
-NICOLE ORESME -polish the heliocentric theory.
-BLACK DEATH -mid 14th century
-CATHOLIC CHURCH DISINTEGRATION

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