Religion In Medieval Europe

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Throughout history, new ideas and inventions have been created from human intelligence effecting the way human life exist in today’s world. There have been different periods all around the world that have experienced some sort of lack development. Then there have been other times of great discovery and creation leaning towards something new and exciting. For a good amount of time, not too much development and creations were being brought forth upon. Part of the reason may be because of religion being the center of all lifestyle’s for about everyone. Religion has been one of the most impactful use of value to human civilization creating some of the best, yet, worse moments in time. There was more than just religion that effected a change towards …show more content…
It was a time of great change known to be as the Renaissance. The telescope played a huge factor during this time. It helped shape a new view in progress leaning towards a better future for our world. Majority of the countries within Europe this time provided famous and influential people who have shaped our world today. One of the countries who partook during this time was Italy. The nation was flourishing as everything seem to be looking successful. Shortly after the works of Lipphersey, astronomer Galileo Galilie developed his own new and improved version of the telescope. He had made it better than it has ever had been, contributing greatly towards the start of the scientific revolution. Galileo’s telescope helped him discover four new stars orbiting Jupiter. His telescope was so powerful that he was able to get a more detailed view of the moon’s surface and discovered even more stars within the Milky Way. He was able to realize that there were rings around Saturn. He also discovered sunspots and the different phases of Venus. Overall, he was able to confirm the information of heliocentrism, which is the fact that the sun is the center of the universe. His discoveries at first made him famous. During the time of medieval Europe and the Renaissance, religion was centered as a main lifestyle of about each country, especially the Italians. It was almost impossible to go against it. Christianity, especially Catholicism, was heavily practiced within each nation. So, with the passion and strict rules of religion and the rapid growth of interest in science, controversy started to rise. By the time Galileo became famous with his discoveries, everyone increasingly became interested towards Galileo’s telescope. People wanted to know how he made and used it. For most of his time he wanted to keep his knowledge of his creation a secret. This only made everyone essentially most

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