What did science in the middle ages focus on?

Answer 1

1st Answer:

Nothing. There was no science in the middle ages. The Catholic church discouraged scientific thought and experiment. Most of science was made up of superstition.

2nd Answer:

Medieval science was very practical. It was focused on solutions to practical problems, and the Church left it alone until the Renaissance, when it started dealing with more cosmological issues.

Engineering and architecture developed a lot during the Middle Ages, as can be seen by anyone who visits Europe and looks to see what is there. The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (now Istanbul) is an example of architecture of the Early Middle Ages, and the Cathedrals of Notre Dame in Paris and Canterbury in England are examples of the Gothic architecture if the High Middle Ages. But examples of architectural development are visible in nearly every village of Western Europe.

Alchemy has a reputation of having the goal of transmutation of base metals into gold, (which would have been very practical if they could have achieved it). Nevertheless, alchemists did provide important chemical resources to people of other professions, ranging from the medical profession to people who used chemicals for such purposes as tanning leather or making gunpowder.

Inventions of the Middle Ages were important and remain so. The horse collar, heavy plow, grinding wheel, fireplace and chimney, stirrups, arched saddle, firearm, and printing press were all medieval inventions.

There was a time in the Middle Ages when scholars, and university professors, especially at the University of Paris, attempted to restrict teaching of science to Aristotle's teachings on the subject, thus preventing any sort of progress. Fortunately, the Church countered this with a series of condemnations culminating in the Condemnations of 1277, which made it heresy to insist that Aristotle was always right on the subject. This freed science to the point that some historians regard it as the beginning of modern science.

There is a links below to articles on medieval technology and science, and on the Condemnations of 1210 to 1277.

Answer 2

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