The collision of the two worlds is best seen in the changes that were introduced in university curriculum.
Logic, rhetoric and theology were the main subjects of study in the medieval set up; now growing importance was attached to the study of astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other sciences. The Royal Society for science was founded and Scholasticism came to be regarded as a term of contempt. Faith in Alchemy was soon gone, and its place was taken by the study of chemistry.