HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antireligion, French Revolution, Canadian English
28 Feb 2017
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The earth is the center of the universe. A lot of information is gone because the great library burns down. Try to fit together christianity and astrology: challenging the ptolemaic universe. Humanity is trying to understand that spirit. Leads people to study things like botany, chemistry, etc. E(cid:454)ploratio(cid:374) of the (cid:862)ne(cid:449) world(cid:863): joh(cid:374) harriso(cid:374) a(cid:374)d lo(cid:374)gitude. Need to make a lot of calculations, hard to figure out. Set up a prize to get people to try to figure out how to measure longitude. Now knowing longitude >> ships not taking a direct route to their destinations. Need two clocks to figure out latitude. 1761 he figures it out and they can start calculating longitude: astronomy and physics. Today, religion and spirit are considered opposite. The sun is the center of the universe. Waits to publish it because he knows it will be a threat. Uses a telescope to record the movement of the sun, planets, and stars.
