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Science in the Middle Ages
Muslim Scholars• Between 700’s and 1200’s Muslim
culture flourished• They took Greek ideas and expanded
them• Borrowed numbering system from
Indian scholars• Produced Arabic numbering system &
develop Algebra• Al-Razi (Persian Doctor) able to
identify and describe disease• Ibn Sina published Canon of Medicine
Jewish & Christian Scholars• Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars help spread scientific
knowledge throughout western Europe• Many translated Greek and Arabic works into Latin• Jewish scholars Maimonides wrote and taught religion,
science & medicine• Gersonides came up with an instrument to measure
distance between objects in the sky• Christianity pushed that viewing the world should be
through faith• Thomas Aquinas tried to show the two could exist
Renaissance Leads to New Ideas
• The Renaissance help the launching of humanism– Emphasis on people and their
achievement
• With the invention of the printing press help the spread of humanism
• European scholars began to question classical learning
• New investigation emerged
Influence of Renaissance Artists• Scientists were affected by
artists of the Renaissance• Artists began to observe
humans and animals even more closely
• Some even dissected human corpses
• Artists begin to make more drawing of human anatomy
Influence of Global Explorations
• Europeans look for new routes to Asia• These voyages would increase the knowledge
of the Earth’s shape, size and weather• This would challenge the classic ideas of
ancient Greeks
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