Soap, surgery & algebra come to mind.
Astronomy. The names of the stars in the Big Dipper - Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, Megrez, Alioth, Mizar, Alcor, and Alkaid (to name but a few) pay mute testimony to that.
That was during the Middle Ages, when science was all but dead on the European continent. As to anything recent, I'm drawing a blank.