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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4668798" data-attributes="member: 6533">Umm, huh.Given the actual intellectual structures of the period I don't know if you could use it as a foil to faith very effectively.  The high medieval church was pretty pro-natural science.  At least as it was understood at the time.  Or rather, you'd probably see small communities of people doing 'science' in different modes and some of these might be hostile to the church, but there would also be a lot of people involved in the church performing similar work with no agenda whatsoever beyond discovering more about god's creation and maybe doing a better job integrating Aristotelian and Arabic sources.Which might be the operative mode to emphasize: that aside from technical and trade applications this science is going to be done more in the context of great works and books than it is in terms of other scientists.  On the other hand, herbalism and zoology is going to be huge, particularly where it combines with para or supernatural elements.  Loads of people are going to be interested in various weird aspects of astronomy.  Optics is going to be a Greek thing that's slowly transmitting around, and, oddly, it's going to be pretty synonomous with engineering in a lot of ways.Mechanically I would just run it off of the knowledge skills that are already in existence.  There's not enough knowledge to form a seperate body and most scientific forms are going to be sub-disciplines in service to other bodies of knowledge.So I suppose I'd divide it up between Nature, Arcane, Thievery, Religion, Healing, History, Dungeoneering, and Nature.</blockquote>

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