HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ptolemy
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Celebrates the new achievements of science; physics, astronomy. Francis bacon said descartes applied human reason to help understand the universe. Movement away from the idea that religion/god has the answer to everything that happens on earth. People still believe in religion but this is a world that is starting to interpret itself through the human mind not directly through god goggles. Providence: the idea that everything is pre-ordained by god. Nicholas copernicus copernican revolution late 1400s mid. Reads to understand the world reads ancient greek texts that were rediscovered in the humanist revolution of the renaissance. First to apply the idea that the sun is the center of the universe. People believed that orbits were perfectly circular around the earth. Published book in 1543 (when he died) revolutions of the heavenly. Challenges the bible both catholics and protestants don"t like this. Challenges the idea that just because you observe something it must.
