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The physical world was looked at through the lens of the Church. The Church taught that the earth was the center of the Universe and all the planets moved around the earth. The Church also taught that to look at the body was sinful, so a doctor couldn't look at the body of a sick person. They divided the body into 4 parts of "humor" and when they prescribed treatments they often used the "humors" of bile, blood, and form to determine what the illness was. The treatments included things like dried mice, urine, Mercury, and bleeding. The people of the time also used superstition to explain things. One popular theory was that there were island in the ocean that were big magnets and if a ship wondered too close to it the island would pull all the nails out the ship sinking it. There were many things like this and there was no real understanding of the physical world.

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