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8 Cards in this Set
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Scientific Revolution
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a crossroads in European thoughts - Key expect of Western Civilization
a move toward scientific explanation - it was science that set the west apart from the rest of the world - made the Enlightenment possible - knowledge is acquired through observation, NOT the Bible - changed the ideals of religion relationship w God and man come into question - physical universe - is in order and harmonious, could be understood slow and limited, not all new ideas, antiquity, revisiting idea, it did not affect a lot of people more dominant in Protestant countries Latin = language of science |
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Church / Science Views of the Universe
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church - ancient worldview of the universe
- accepted notions: earth was center of universe (geocentrism) - problem: could the earth go backwards? |
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Aristotle on Geocentrism
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Earth is so heavy, must be in the center
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Ptolemy on Geocentrism
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standard explanation of the place of the earth in the haven combined the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy and the physical cosmology
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Science
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Copernicus - heliocentric - sun is the center of the universe, defensive, very careful
Galileo - findings, confirmed Copernicanism and embraced it, discovered telescope - Saturn's rings, Moon's craters |
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Important Science Pioneers
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a) Brahe - Mercury and Venus revolve around the sun, all others revolve around the earth
b) Kepler - student of Brahe, takes more credit. uses Bruno's ideas. found that planets move around in elliptical orbits (correct) c)Bruno - questioned the trinity because he believed the heavens were more expansive than what the church says |
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Important Science Pioneers (con't)
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d) Newtom - laws of gravity - basis of planetary motion
very overly - every object affects another very religious man - things calmed down, he could publish ideas religion and science are complimentary e) Francis Bacon - father of empiricism and of experimentation in science, let us look forward, knowledge is power used to improve the human condition f) Rene Descartes - method of rational deduction, makes of scientific mention, dualism (God and science), analytical geometry I think, therefore, I am |
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What is the Old Regime?
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time period up to French Revolution
land was everything, nobility owned the land, peasants did not aristocracy was everything - did not pay taxes, acted like futile lords time period of change rigid class structure |
