Science of the Middle Ages focused on?

Answer 1

In the Middle Ages, science tended to focus on three things. These were the traditional science inherited from Greco-Roman antiquity, new science imported from Islamic culture, and very practical scientific developments and advancements made in medieval Europe.

The Greco-Roman science was perhaps the most problematical, because it tended to be scholastic and prevent investigation. Nevertheless, there was a lot of science inherited from the ancient Greeks, and this was especially true in such areas as geometry, astronomy, and music, where Greek ideas continued largely intact.

Islamic science was in some respects very advanced, particularly in such areas as medicine. In fact, in some ways the Islamic medical practice of the 10th century was much more scientific than what Europeans had in the 18th. Medieval people had access to Islamic medicine all over Europe, but it was much more influential in the Byzantine Empire than in the West. Also, its influence in the West seems to have declined as the Late Middle Ages progressed into the Renaissance.

The local, practical developments of the Middle Ages included some of the most impressive new ideas of the time. These include horse shoes, tidal mills, new kinds of wind mills, the blast furnace, the chimney and fireplace, and the printing press. These ideas were all pretty much uncontroversial at the time, so, with the exception of the printing press, they were discovered or invented anonymously and without notice. Even when the events were recorded, we often do not know what individuals were involved; for example, we know the year the artesian well was invented, and the monastery whose monks invented it, but not the names of the monks.