HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Geocentric Model, Maragheh
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The scientific revolution 1: the upgrading science for the modern. Ptolemy (150 ce: gave mathematical evidence for the placement of celestial, gave mathematical precision for the movement of the cosmos objects. Heliocentric (sun in the middle of everything) Suggested that if sun and earth were flipped from the ptolemaic view, the math would be simpler. Aristotelean view allowed for no change in the heavens had not: attack aristotle"s views of the universe o o. Kepler"s first law: the orbits of the planets are ellipses. An emotion of mars 1609: couldn"t explain why planets stayed in their orbits, isaac newton could. There are no separate higher and lower realms. Ordered by pope to renounce his theory as it contradicted the bible. Explains how heavenly bodies move in orderly fashion. Mass, inertia in relation to velocity, acceleration (gravity decreases in accordance with the inverse square of the distance and increases according to the product of the masses)
