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Since the Church considered the ’scientific’ domain to be part of its curriculum, new science was generally a threat.

I don't think that's true. Church only opposed science that was in contradiction with the Bible, which was a small minority of all science discoveries. Church never had any qualms with Newton laws or laws of conservation of mass (in chemistry) etc.

Church never had any qualms with Newton laws or laws of conservation of mass (in chemistry) etc.

That was a much later church separated by more than one schism. The Orthodox Church of the Byzantine empire was much less tolerant of any thoughts that might contradict doctrine. More that one philosopher was convicted of heresy.

Were these philosophers generating science?

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