HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Epistemology, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Tabula Rasa
18/11/2015
Lecture 16
The Scientific Revolution
F. BACON (1561-1626)
RENE DESCARTES (1596-1642)
GELILAO GALILEI (1564-1642)
N. COPERNICU“’ DE REVOLUTIONIBU“ 1
ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)
TABULA RASA
• Revolution had been needed
• Changed the relationship between man and nature
• Ability to recalibrate
• Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes (studies)
Osessed ith Ho do e ko athig? Ho do e ko hat e ko is
true?
Re-assessment of human knowledge
The deductive method was backwards—not everything came down to God
Knowledge should be the product of observation and reason, not accepted as
the first premise
• Before, world seemed so ig that people did’t ask—instead, came up with other ways
of rationalizing
• Society had been developed by universal assumptions that were widely accepted as
truths
• Bible had been the basis that other truths were tested against
• It is etter to eist tha ot to eist so, i olusio, God ust eist
• abandoned authorities and principles
• Descartes
as’t actively engaged in politics
philosopher
accept that nothing is true until it has been proved to you that it is true
Cogito ergo su I thik therefore I a
began the formulation and institutionalization of scientific method
rote Disourse o ethod
• now had a vehicle for testing and extending knowledge
• independent of church and monarchy
• people knew what was right by looking at it objectively
• Galileo Galilei
Took Desartes’ studies to a olusio
Obsessed with planetary motion
Built the telescope
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Document Summary
Gelilao galilei (1564-1642: copernicu " (cid:862)de revolutionibu (cid:863) (cid:894)1(cid:1009)(cid:1008)(cid:1007)(cid:895) Tabula rasa: revolution had been needed, changed the relationship between man and nature, ability to recalibrate, francis bacon and rene descartes (studies) Ho(cid:449) do (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) is true? (cid:863) The deductive method was backwards not everything came down to god. Accept that nothing is true until it has been proved to you that it is true. (cid:862)cogito ergo su(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:894)i thi(cid:374)k therefore i a(cid:373)(cid:895) Began the formulation and institutionalization of scientific method. (cid:449)rote (cid:862)dis(cid:272)ourse o(cid:374) (cid:373)ethod(cid:863) independent of church and monarchy: now had a vehicle for testing and extending knowledge, people knew what was right by looking at it objectively, galileo galilei. Changed the relationship between man and the universe. In 1669, published a book of observations from his telescope. Observation that the moon circles the earth (full of craters and mountains)
