The Day the Universe Changed

In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason (1x2)

Air date: Mar 26, 1985

Relates that in the course of overrunning Moorish Spain, Christian Europe discovered libraries, universities, optics, mechanics, and natural philosophy. This rediscovery of classical knowledge led to the founding of universities and the replacement of Augustinian philosophies by Aristotelian theories.