natural sciences...

natural sciences: the general principles of bodies, theoretical cosmogony, mineralogy, botany, zoology mathematics: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theology: the general principles of existence, divinity philosophy ethics (regarding the individual) practical domestic economy (regarding the family) politics (regarding the community) The End of Greek Philosophy After Plato and Aristotle, for some time their students occupied themselves with the compilation, arrangement and eaboration on the works of their masters, and more or less kept the market for philosophy brisk.

It did not take long, however, for this briskness to be replaced by stagnation, and that prosperity and thriving began to fail, and in Greece there came to be few customers for the commodities of science and knowledge. The masters of the arts and sciences came to dwell in Alexandria, where they engaged in research and education. This city remained the center of science and philosophy until the fourth century.

But when the Roman emperors converted to Christianity, and propagated the beliefs of the Church as official beliefs and ideas, they began to oppose the free realm of thought and science, until finally Justinian, the Eastern Roman Emperor, in the year A.D. 529, issued the edict to close the universities and schools of Athens and Alexandria, and the scholars fled for their lives, and they sought refuge in other…