When we talk of the emergence of science we do not use the term ‘science’ in the sense in which we use it at present. On the other hand, it implied a shift in emphasis from ‘authoritative’ truth to ‘factual’ truth. As a result of the renaissance there was a tremendous thirst for knowledge and the outlook of people underwent great change.
They were not willing to accept anything unless it could be supported by proof, illustration or fact. This spirit of enquiry, specially flourished in countries like Holland and England, where the ideas of religious tolerance had started taking root. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the scholars began to make efforts to discover the process and the laws governing the natural world.
It may be observed that rationalistic emphasis upon the scientific method affected virtually every area of human activity including the evolution of the religious thought.
The discovery of analytical geometry, calculus and logarithms greatly contributed to the scientific research, which was greatly aided by newly invented tools like telescope and microscope, the air pump, the pendulum clock etc.