HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Revolution, Geocentric Model, Cogito Ergo Sum
16 Apr 2017
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Out with the old in with the new. Reform question authority: fundamental christian truth, skepticism. New translations, new technology: new ways of thinking and belief: telescope: obscene measurements of natural world. Is the scientific revolution real: how does the universe function, church vs. science, christian truth bedrocks of understanding truth of christ. Texts hang onto biblical truth, from perspectives of faith. New theories: elements, use of math, reasoning, birth of science: rely on reasoning, rely on senses reason or intuition or observation. Scala naturae: latter of nature understanding of universe. Plato, judaism, christianity: structure and order to universe: each layer interacts with one another. Structure of hierarchy: angels vs. humans put everyone in place. Plato: forms, path for truth, ascending through cave: hierarchical element to transcendent, truth, macrocosm universe: order, element of relationship, microcosm human body. Aristotle: in relation to something else: every object related to something on hierarchy. Rational world aristotle: heaviest element earth everything drawn by gravity.
