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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