The Earth Is Flat: The Early Middle Ages

The “Earth is flat”. That’s what society & scientists from the early Middle Ages would say. How do you do so? Because they simply came up with a conclusion without any experimentation or research. This is what separated the philosophers and scientists of the Middle Ages from the Renaissance, which is how the Scientific Revolution was formed. Overall, the Scientific Revolution took the discoveries from the previous generations and reimagined them, this time by gathering more evidence rather than making a quick conclusion. The intellectuals of the Scientific Revolution fundamentally altered the way society viewed the universe by questioning the old doings of past scientists, creating new inventions & discoveries, and challenging the religious
It then shows the Church wanting to bonk Galileo with his telescope, showing that the Church did not like his discovery (“Galileo Describes”). This image greatly depicts how the Church sounds like a scientist from the Middle Ages. They did not observe or experiment with anything, and rather came up with their own opinions and conclusions without any research involved. When Galielo proved to the world how the Moon was not flat, the Church did not approve of it one bit. In the image, the viewer can clearly tell that because of how the Church is thinking of negative things about Galileo. The viewer can also reach this conclusion by reading “The Crime of Galileo”. In this book, it states that Galileo was “denounced in 1615. for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many. that the sun is immovable in the center of the world.We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo.have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy” (Giorgio de