HIST1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Knowledge Engineering, Herbert Butterfield, Natural Philosophy
Week 6 Lecture – HIST1601
Scientific Revolution
HIST1601 tutes next week (Week 7)
Essay:
• Footnotes (at end of page or at end of essay) and Bibliography
• Chicago 16th A Style
• 40% of marks
• 2000 words (+/- 100 words)
• Must analyse sources used
Scientific Revolution (1543-1687)
Why did we arrive at the world view?
• Not leading one event to another (tech enabled discoveries)
• Not just event to moment per se
• How people approach the world
• Politics played a large part, eg with Luther
• Sought to engage with God more directly
• 16th and 17th century – experimentation, mathematical methods, mechanical concepts
• Belief at one state that the world was run by a machine, emergence of mechanical view of
nature
Previous Lectures:
• Voyages of exploration
• World was round!
• Accurate representation of nature and human beings, eg da Vinci – from Ancient Greece
and Rome
• 17th – rise of useful tech, eg telescope and microscope – take to China by Jesuits
• China – middle kingdom
• World was not the centre of the universe
Scientific Revolution (1543-1687)
• Seen as separate from natural philosophy
• 17th term science is used more widely
• Political connotations in English Civil War
Herbert Butterfield:
• The Origins of Modern Science
• 1951
• Stressed importance of natural observation
• Was not the only way of learning
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• Conceptual revo
A.Rupert Hall:
• The scientific revo 1500-1800: 1954
• Term useful, but is questioned
Previous Views:
• Stable and unmoving – Aristotle
• Pholemy backed idea
• Church back that the universe revolved around us and out activated
• Disenchantment from magic to science
Peter Harrison
The Ne Siee:
• Argued that they were doing something new
• Challenged old ways of knowing
• 1609: decade of study on mars –
Science Revo:
• 1453: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople – Byzantine scholars flee
New Science:
• Francis Bacon – 1620 – New Organon
• Aristotle
• Galileo – 1638 – Two New Sciences – world as a machine
• Discovering a new world – from the voyages (led to exploration of new plants and animals)
Bacon:
• Renovation of ancient authority
• Sense of light and go forth on ships and seek out new knowledge
• One of the fathers of modern science
• Reformation on all process of knowledge
Science:
• New Tech – able to view nature
• State promoting science, navigation, stars
• Humanism, attempt to map the stars
• Reformation led to scientific
• Astronomy had prominent place
• Christianity allowed people to know their place and feel important
• Not the be all and end all
• Challenge of Christians and the Church
• Universe was finite
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Document Summary
Essay: footnotes (at end of page or at end of essay) and bibliography, chicago 16th a style, 40% of marks, 2000 words (+/- 100 words, must analyse sources used. Scientific revolution (1543-1687: seen as separate from natural philosophy, 17th term science is used more widely, political connotations in english civil war. Herbert butterfield: the origins of modern science, 1951, stressed importance of natural observation, was not the only way of learning, conceptual revo. A. rupert hall: the scientific revo 1500-1800: 1954, term useful, but is questioned. Previous views: stable and unmoving aristotle, pholemy backed idea, church back that the universe revolved around us and out activated, disenchantment from magic to science. The (cid:858)ne(cid:449)(cid:859) s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e: argued that they were doing something new, challenged old ways of knowing, 1609: decade of study on mars . Science revo: 1453: ottoman turks conquered constantinople byzantine scholars flee.
