ABSTRACT
This chapter examines bits and pieces of history spanning the period between the 1100s and 1500s. These fragments people seem to be connected in various ways. They show links among the sciences, the arts and theology as well. The new knowledge from Islam, with its own legacy drawn from India, Greece and China, found a particularly welcoming home in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. Results and advances that came from this knowledge later on had to face some resistance from the Catholic Church, especially about the heliocentric view. The impact of print, using moveable type, was as profound on science as on any domain of expression. It made books abundant, easy to replace, simple to distribute, affordable to far more people than manuscripts, and of guaranteed reproducibility. It enhanced scientific communication, expanded its visual elements from images such as those of Vesalius to mathematical symbols and complex geometric diagrams.
