What was the importance of Latin during the Scientific Revolution in Europe? It encouraged people to join the Roman Catholic Church. It was the language used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass. It provided a common language for the exchange of ideas. It was one of many languages used to share new ideas.

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Mathew Hester

26 January, 10:09

What was the importance of Latin during the Scientific Revolution in Europe? It encouraged people to join the Roman Catholic Church. It was the language used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass. It provided a common language for the exchange of ideas. It was one of many languages used to share new ideas.

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Ryder Decker · Answer 1

Answer: It provided a common language for the exchange of ideas.

Latin had been the language of the church for centuries. Since the church had led the way in establishing universities in Europe, educated persons were all schooled in Latin. It provided a common language not only for scholarship in religion but in all other areas of knowledge as well.

Some of the great works in Latin from the Scientific Revolution were:

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium ("On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy") by Isaac Newton Novum Organum ("The New Method") by Francis Bacon