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Dark Ages
High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
(500-1000 AD)
(1000 – 1300 AD)
(1300-1500 AD)
DARK AGES (500 – 1000 AD) 🙏
consists of 5 centuries
- Terrible political and economic turmoil
- Vikings and Saxons
- people cannot read and write except those members of the clergy
- Christian faith and bible
- limited access to scientific literature written in Greek
HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000 – 1300 AD)
- political stability
- renewal of large-
scale building . - Monasteries became wealthy and
- Regained political stability
(High Middle Ages) Christian Scholasticism emphasis on the Platonic
reasoning
“scholastics” or schoolmen defending dogma
- Oldest universities are also established during high middle ages
Oldest Universities
OCMPSV
Oxford 1167
Cambridge 1209
Montpellier 1220
Padua 1222
Sorbonne 1253
Valladolid 1292
- church began to
battle for political and intellectual control over these universities
Scholasticism
dominated the universities
Franciscans and Dominicans
LATE MIDDLE AGES (1300 – 1500 AD)
Philosophers
- John Duns Scotus
world of faith had to be kept separated.
- William of Ockham
principle of parsimony: simple theory is more complex - Jean Buridan
theory of impetus: anticipated Newtonian laws of physics - Thomas Bradwardine
study of kinematics and velocity - Nicole Oresme
theory about heliocentric, light and color were related
Main Power Sources in technology of middle ages
➢ Water
➢ Animals
➢ Human
water mill flourished in Europe
was (middle ages)
the Norse Mill.
Norse Mill
drive a millstone
Vertical water mill
powered by a stream
Teutonic tribes (middle ages)
- people of Iron Age use iron plowshares
- spinning jenny or spinning wheel
- Waterpower was used to drive fulling stocks.
- A machine for spinning with one spindle, patented by James Hargreaves
in 1770 - Fulling mill
- Rope
- Barrel
- Leather
- Metal smith
Soap - decomposing animals or vegetable fats
- cleaning textile fabrics.
Georgius Agricola published
De re metallica
- techniques of shafting
3 forms of iron:
PCS
- pure iron – moderately hard;
red when hits 700 degrees Celsius -
bent into whatever shape
rot iron – moderately tough and
easily bent; loses any sharp edges
- cast iron – enormously strong;
liquid form, it cannot be bent - steel iron – small amount of carbon
dissolved
carbon –
distinguish three irons
bellows
furnace a strong blast of air
Blast furnace –
used for melting (lead or copper);
(series of pipes)
Warfare (middle ages)
Gunpowder – carbon and sulfur, invented in China, han song dynasty
made up of carbon, sulfur, saltpeter
Cannons – Christian war against Muslim in the 13th century
Other Notable Inventions
- Mechanical clock – oldest clock
- Artesian well (1126) - groundwater
- Wheelbarrow (1170s) - useful in construction,
- Mirrors (1180) - metal, bronze, tin or silver
- Spectacles (1280s) - convex lenses to help far- sighted.
concave lenses for near sighted
Alchemy
mixture of science, philosophy, and mysticism
- matter was composed of four elements:, earth, air, fire, and water
Common aims:
o Transmutation of base metal (lead) into
a nobel metal (gold)
o Creation of an elixir of immortality
o Creation of panacea to cure any diseases
o development of an Alkahest (universal
solvent)
Paracelsus –
added a third element salt to make trinity of alchemical elements