Yes, monks are authors of scientific works, but as said, only if it not denies the Dogma (if they don't wanted to burn) , also not accessible by the people and only for the elites, apart it wasn't really science how we understand it now, it was more a process to adapt theories to fit the Dogma. But they invent also very nice things, eg. in the middle age, a number system to write numbers fro 1 to 9999 in one sign by Cistercian monks.