CAS HI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: A New Earth, Uraniborg, Philolaus
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Chapter 16: toward a new heaven and a new earth. The scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science. Toward a new heaven: a revolution in astronomy: the greatest achievements in science during the 16th and 17th. Poland and italy: focus was on mathematics and astronomy, published on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres in. 1543 which attacked the ptolemaic concept of an earth- centered universe: ideas of copernicus were nearly as complicated as. Ptolemy"s: using elaborate astronomical and mathematical calculations copernicus argued that the universe consisted of eight spheres with the sun motionless in the center, planets revolved around sun and moon revolved around earth, ideas immediately condemned, especially by. Copernicus"s heliocentric theory but that showed the orbits were elliptical: friend of galileo and members together of a new european scientific community maintaining contact through letters and new publications, ideas gained acceptance despite disproving the great. Jesuits orders of the church pledged to defend ancient.
