Blog #6 Science

I always had an interest for science it was always my favorite subject, and I always went out of my way to know about it. This period when science was introduced I believe was a crucial period in our history. It motivated people to make discoveries and understand the concept of our universe and without these understanding our world would not be evolving as quickly. My favorite part was reading how people used to believe how all the planets orbited around the earth due to humans being so superior in the universe. Over time new discoveries came about the solar system how they actually orbit. It was really fascinating to me to read how once the gain of knowledge and science cause people to turn against religion, as if the churches were telling lies to them. I believe it good to have knowledge of science and be religious, even though they contradict each other. It good to have faith from your religion when science does not have an explanation, and it’s good to understand science why things happen. There was even a song made based on the topic of science and faith. As I learned in art class science was a big impact on Art other than history. I remember reading how people would be desperate to gain knowledge, and they would hire people to break in and steal the source to gain knowledge. I think science was a big impact on mankind; it evolved us and made us to become the most dominated species. We have to thank the Greeks to giving us the knowledge they made huge contributions and discoveries. The Greeks were really evolved compared the society in Western Europe during that time. It was also interesting to read how different countries were influenced by the access of knowledge and science and wanted to Europeans theories or practices. Imagine if the Europeans did not share their knowledge to other countries they would have become so powerful and possibility take over other empires and then become the dominated empire. To me it was really frustrating to read how they did not let women be able to study with the men, and to read “the whole education of women ought to be relative to men” (Strayer, 746). Women should have the equal rights as men, who knows they could have made a huge contributions to the men’s work and share their insight that the men did not see. Due to inequality of women not getting an education end up affecting women for many years after, not allowing them to attend universities or getting an education. I think the inequality of men and women was established through religion because they would preach that women are inferior to men, so it would make sense why men only got education, because the “superior” beings should have access to it. The overall reading of science and how it affected the Era was very fascinating in addition to how it leaded to a Romantic Era which was a complete change.