RENAISSANCE SCIENCE

BY THE 15th CENTURY,THE IDEAS OF ANCIENT GREEKS,ALONG WITH THOSE OF THE CHURCH,HAD BECOME DOGMA(REGARDED OF TRUTH)THROUGHOUT EUROPE.DURING THE RENAISSANCE WHICH MEANS REBIRTH,PEOPLE BEGAN TO QUESTION THE DOGMA.THEY ALSO BEGAN TO EXPERIMENT IN A TRULY SCIENTIFIC FASHION.THESE NEW APPROACH TOOK NOTHING FOR GRANTED,AND USED OBSERVATION,EXPERIMENTS,AND ARGUMENT TO DEVELOP THEORIES TO EXPLAIN WHY THINGS HAPPEN.GREAT SCIENTISTS,SUCH AS GALILEO AND NEWTON,DATE FROM THIS PERIOD.EXAMPLE OF RENAISSANCE SCIENCE - SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS - THE USE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS,SUCH AS TELESCOPE,MADE NEW OBSERVATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE POSSIBLE.MANY OF THESE OBSERVATIONS CHALLENGED THE ACCEPTED BUT UNTESTED IDEAS OF THE TIME.PHYSICALS MODELS SUCH AS THE ARMILLARY SPHERE,HELPED TO VISUALIZE AND TEST THE NEW THEORIES,WHICH NOW BEGAN TO REPLACE THE NEW IDEAS. PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA - AFTER THE PRINTING PRESS WAS INVENTED,INFLUENTIAL WORKS,SUCH AS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA BY NEWTON(PUBLISHED IN 1687)BECAME AVAILABLE IN GREAT NUMBERS,AND HELPED SPREAD THE NEW SCIENTIFIC METHOD.THESE BOOKS SET OUT THE LAWS OF MOTION AND NEWTONS THEORY OF GRAVITY.