Marlowe's World: Science and Discovery:

• Science was revolutionised
• 1492 the new world was discovered
• It was a shift from natural philosophy to chemistry and biological sciences.
• New scientific developments were created – such as the telescope.
• Time of questioning – however some still believed in witchcraft.
• Scientists began to question traditional authorities and depended instead upon their own observation.
• The Italian Galileo (1564 – 1642) came into conflict with the church for claiming that the earth was not the centre of the universe.
• Galileo was deemed as the father of modern astronomy - he discovered the 4 moons of Jupiter, the orbits of Venus and the planet Neptune itself.
• Explorers bought back new produce such as spices, silks and gold – sparked great excitement in the popular imagination for stories of distant lands and their people.
• In 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered the new world – America, the Caribbean etc.
• It took him 3 journeys to identify that the world was indeed not flat.