One of the theses of atheistic criticism says: «Christianity oppressed by science since its adoption in Europe. It is because Europe has lagged behind the East. While Western Christians burned scientists at the stake of the Inquisition, the Arabs made great scientific discoveries, and flourished in every way.» Like most atheistic criticism, this statement is intended for people who are not really bother to study history in school.
The lack of great scientific discoveries and absence of development of science and technology in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages is explained very simply. Most of Europe in the early Middle Ages took the barbarian tribes, who by and large, than to swing clubs, running through the woods, they do not know how. To this we must add another «Great Migration»: Goths, Huns, the Saxons, Slavs, Avars, Germans and others who slaughtered each other. Naturally, in this fight for survival time and place for science somehow it was not.
To make it easier to eastern states, where civilization has existed for thousands of years. Naturally, the raw data of East and West were unequal. We had to go through centuries to barbarous nations, yet victorious Roman empire, built up their own civilization, able to give birth to science. So really it happened.
Thus, even in the early Middle Ages appear sprouts of science, and not the least role in this is played by the church. From the early Middle Ages famous personalities can be identified, such as Boethius (480 — 524). He was one of the most widely read and respected authors in the medieval schools. Boethius laid the foundations for the scholastic method, given Latin equivalents categories of Greek philosophy. That Boethius shared seven liberal arts, dedicated Martsianom Chapel on the trivium and quadrivium, t. E. Almost Humanities (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic) and natural science (geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music) cycles. He himself was engaged who first gave it a theoretical justification and classification, wrote a series of essays on subjects quadrivium (preserved treatises on arithmetic and music). His treatise «On Music» of students studying at Oxford University, even in the 18th century.
Also a incredible contribution to the development and preservation of science and technology in the early Middle Ages played a Christian monasteries. Almost every monastery there were workshops on correspondence, which preserved and copied the manuscripts of ancient authors, which exist even to this day. For instance, in St. Gallen monastery Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini found manuscript of Lucretius Carr and Kvintillian. Many monastic schools began to focus on the individual science and technology and also arts: Mets — on the music stage — for medicine, Combray — math. Science and technology has been developing step by step, with each invention their role to society has grew up.
The lack of great scientific discoveries and absence of development of science and technology in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages is explained very simply. Most of Europe in the early Middle Ages took the barbarian tribes, who by and large, than to swing clubs, running through the woods, they do not know how. To this we must add another «Great Migration»: Goths, Huns, the Saxons, Slavs, Avars, Germans and others who slaughtered each other. Naturally, in this fight for survival time and place for science somehow it was not.
To make it easier to eastern states, where civilization has existed for thousands of years. Naturally, the raw data of East and West were unequal. We had to go through centuries to barbarous nations, yet victorious Roman empire, built up their own civilization, able to give birth to science. So really it happened.
Thus, even in the early Middle Ages appear sprouts of science, and not the least role in this is played by the church. From the early Middle Ages famous personalities can be identified, such as Boethius (480 — 524). He was one of the most widely read and respected authors in the medieval schools. Boethius laid the foundations for the scholastic method, given Latin equivalents categories of Greek philosophy. That Boethius shared seven liberal arts, dedicated Martsianom Chapel on the trivium and quadrivium, t. E. Almost Humanities (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic) and natural science (geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music) cycles. He himself was engaged who first gave it a theoretical justification and classification, wrote a series of essays on subjects quadrivium (preserved treatises on arithmetic and music). His treatise «On Music» of students studying at Oxford University, even in the 18th century.
Also a incredible contribution to the development and preservation of science and technology in the early Middle Ages played a Christian monasteries. Almost every monastery there were workshops on correspondence, which preserved and copied the manuscripts of ancient authors, which exist even to this day. For instance, in St. Gallen monastery Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini found manuscript of Lucretius Carr and Kvintillian. Many monastic schools began to focus on the individual science and technology and also arts: Mets — on the music stage — for medicine, Combray — math. Science and technology has been developing step by step, with each invention their role to society has grew up.
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