Awakening

Awakening... That is the best word to describe what went on in the 12th century/scientific revolution. It seemed like all of the sudden the way people though up and changed! It really amazed me to read about the difference in the way "science" and "nature" were thought about. I like the word awakening because it seems as if people were sleeping during the medevil time period and the next thing you know they woke up into the early modern era with these new ideas about how the world worked. I thought it was interesting as well that in one of the lectures science was described similar to religion by saying it was about belief because in that time no one really knew for sure if these ideas that were floating around everywhere were correct the scientists just had to believe in them. This whole period of time fascinates me.