NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural Philosophy, Thought Experiment, Europe 1
2 Jan 2016
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Dark ages: problematic because: science and technology were in relative decline. Europe, the same was not true in other parts of the world (arab & china = technology was missing) medicine, math,, autonomy, etc. (natural philosopher was at its peak) Arab world -> arab scholars made contributions to the fields, added to the knowledge of the greek, and it seemed as if they embraced greek philosophy but their role was limited. Greek not philosophy: arabic translators overtime had more interactions with europe, then these ideas were translated in latin. Translation because of translation, contribution and natural philosophy were ignored: although science and technology were not necessarily being done, the same is not true in the latin medieval period. Gradual acceptance and embracing of science and technology in europe. Early christian philosophers rejected science and technology but at the latin medieval period they embraced it as well. Early christianity, plato and aristotle"s work was banned because of how controversial they were.
