PSYC 397 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Renaissance Music, Enterobacteriaceae, Suggestibility
9 Mar 2021
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Western theological and political worldviews could not account. It became necessary to expand geographical boundaries and intellectual boundaries: geographic discoveries contributed to a new curiosity and openness to revolutionary ideas. In 1543, he proposed that earth turned once daily on its axis and traveled in an annual path around the sun: copernicus had advanced a new heliocentric (sun-centred) cosmology. In terms of calendar predictions, copernican theory represented little improvement over ptolemy"s geocentric model: copernicus believed that the circle is the most perfect geometric figure. Johannes kepler, a german astronomer and mathematician, later proved they were all wrong: he discovered that planes travel in elliptical or oval-shaped motions around the sun. Galileo galilei: the italian astronomer and physicist galileo galilei is one of the most celebrated figures in the history of science. Petrarch: an italian poet, scholar and moralist, who was an early leader in renaissance humanism, petrarch was obsessed with the recovery and study of ancient roman and greek manuscripts.
