Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Science in the latin west during the medieval age

Science in the latin west during the medieval age

  • Barbarian invasion- migration of citizens of roman empire to its neigboring tribes.
  • Latin west- western europe united by the language and european culture.
  • Migration or barbarian invasion
  • De urbanization- negative effect of the fall of roman empire
  • Study of native was pursued more for practical reason than an abstract inquiry.

 

Educational reform (Charles the great)

  • 7 liberal arts

-trivium (literary education) ( rhetoric, grammar, dialectic)

-quadrivium (scientific education) (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy)

 

  • Birth of medieval universities
  • Rediscovery of the works of Aristotle
  • Latin translation of the main works of Aristotle
  • Latin translation of the main works of ancient philosophers and thinkers
  • Grosseteeste (Oxford Franciscan school)
  • Aristotle's dual path of reasoning (resolution and composition) from particular observation to universal law vv.)


Scientist

  • Bacon observation, hypothesis, experimentation and verification
  • William of occam (principle of parsimony)
  • Jean Buridan (brilliant art master of ma) "theory of impetus"
  • Thomas Bradwardine- distinguished dynamics to kinematics, instantaneous velocity, mean speed theorem
  • Nicole Oresme- polished the heliocentric theory; optics
  • Black death (mid 14th century)
  • Catholic church disintegration (papacy)

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