MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Scholasticism, And Yet It Moves, Sirach

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 13
• Professor: Edmond Yi- Teh Chang

Document Summary

Mmw 13 lecture 23 conceptual breakthroughs in western science. Preconditions for the scientific revolution" in 16th and 17th centuries: medieval scholasticism. Scholasticism assumed that the truths were already known. Methodology that was used to defend truths laid foundation for science. Returned to classical texts and re-read them very closely: renaissance and reformation. Not seeing this world as veil of tears, but believing that it was worthwhile to invest in this world: material success, knowledge. Renaissance architecture required a lot of engineering: effects of exploration. Francis bacon"s wish to be the columbus of the new intellectual world . Starting from the late 1400"s, portuguese and then the spanish began to travel around the world, bringing back a lot of new information about the world. New sense of curiosity about the vast realm of nature that was still unexplored and intact: commercial interests in science. Investors, academics, and marketing experts created a synergy of technological innovation and application.