Why did the church resist changes during the middle ages and the renaissance that contributed to the scientific revolution? a. the church was wary of scientists questioning its explanation of reality. b. the church felt reading greek would reduce the importance of latin c. the church was afraid islamic influence would create more muslims in europe. d. the church feared scientific publications would become more widely printed than the bible.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion