1. Science and Technology

2. Imagine A life without TV, radio, movies, books, or computers.
New books had to be hand written which took many hands and months to complete

3. New Technology in a New World
The printing press is considered one of the most significant inventions of the Renaissance

4. How Did Print Change the World?
Led to the fast flow of information and lead to the spread of new ideas
books could be printed and read by many more people.
This meant that people who were previously illiterate now had motivation to learn how to read, which lead to a more educated population.

5. Scientific Revolution
A period of time when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.

6. Science and Religion
Scientists believed they could learn more by studying actual topics rather then accepting what the Bible said as fact
Their discoveries often conflicted with teachings of the church

7. Copernicus A Renaissance mathematician and astronomer
Formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe

8. Copernicus vs Church Teachings
His theory conflicted with the church which taught that the earth was the center of the universe
Ideas condemned by the church after he died

9. Galileo
Philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician that improved the telescope to observe the universe
Discovered that the moons were solid objects rather than clusters of ether or gasses
Confirmed that the Sun is the centre of the universe and planets moved around the sun

10. Galileo vs Church Theory
His theory conflicted with the church
Summoned by the Inquisition and told to accept the church theory under threat of torture
Said he would and sentenced to house arrest
E pur si muove