*pixiedust*: How did Science play a role during the Renaissance and why was science another means to disobey the church?
How did Science play a role during the Renaissance and why was science another means to disobey the church? Why was it taking a risk to be a scientist during the Renaissance?
-Protestant Reformation-
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-Scientific Revolution-***
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Answer by DeBarros
For the Renaissance, the truth of nature can only be obtained through experience and observation guided by the use of reason … this went against the tenets of the Catholic church, who were no longer accepted by the Renaissance, which not ceased to be Christians, but do not accept anything that could not be proven through experience and observation (with the exception of faith in God, of course) …
-It was the Renaissance that Europe has abandoned the complicated Roman and began using the simple and practical figures brought out by the Arabs (so named after Arabic) … that greatly facilitated the calculations … men and women Renaissance realized that mathematics helped enough to understand and master the world …
the Renaissance, the science has known great progress:
– The Italian Cardano created in 1543 to negative numbers, ie less than zero …- 1, -2, -3, etc …
– The dutch Stevin showed that the fractions podeiam be written with decimal numbers, facilitating the calculation … that is, 0.25 is equal to 1 / 4 …
– Physics was the great great works of Copernicus and Galileo on the Geocentric model, which caused a serious confrontation with the Catholic Church, which almost leads Galileo to the fire of the Inquisition …
– The mechanical clock was invented in the fourteenth century … the thermometer in 1592 and the microscope in 1590 …
– In shipping, the Portuguese were pioneers … they perfected the astrolabe and the compass and created a small and agile caravel …
– The German Gutenberg invents the typographer in 1454, making the books much cheaper and facilitating the dissemination of knowledge …
on the Protestant Reformation, go to the link below …
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