ARH 126CTWI Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scientific Revolution, Age Of Enlightenment
5 Apr 2016
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Medieval philosophers believed that the earth was a motionless body located at the center of the universe. The sun, moon, and planets all moved around the earth in perfectly circular paths. It was also believed that difering physical laws applied to the earth and to the heavens. This view was supported by aristotle and ptolemy, and the church had a similar view of the world in the idea that god had placed it in the center of the universe. Copernicus believed that the earth and the rest of the universe rotated around the sun, making the sun the center of the universe. Kepler took upon carefully recording the movements of the known orbits sun planets after his associate tycho brahe died. One of the irst to use a telescope to observe space, which provided irrefutable support for the heliocentric view.
