Sunday, November 20, 2011

Name 3 scientific ideas that came into existence during the Renaissance??

1. Alchemy


2. Astronomy


3. Geography and the New World

Name 3 scientific ideas that came into existence during the Renaissance??
The sneaking suspicion that The Church was a crock was maybe the first.
Reply:Heliocentric astronomy; circulation of blood through the body; common acceptance and use of the knowledge that the earth is spherical (the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and had a surprisingly accurate estimate of its dimensions, but they did nothing with the knowledge); mathematical innovations about infinitesimals (calculus), real and imaginary numbers, logarithms, calculating pi to hundred or more decimals; properties of vibrating strings and the musical scale





You probably could double this list with any good history of science.


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