HIST 1093 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Accademia Dei Lincei, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Scientific Revolution
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Needed knowledge from the new world for profits. Supplemented classical knowledge with observation and experimentation. Navigation, metal, mining, printing and gunsmithing were becoming superior to knowledge from classical sources. Simultaneous advances in both scientific and technological knowledge. Galileo: telescope, product of advances in lense making, discovered four of. Jupiter"s moons and their changing positions around jupiter, realized they were orbiting the planet, realized the moon was covered with craters and imperfections, argument the moon was made out of the same matter as the earth, also found sunspots. Creating a demand for more and better telescopes. Microscope with ability to see things invisible to the naked eye laven hooke"s microscope. Clock - accurate clocks needed for timing scientific observations, helping with longitude calculation and map making. Swiss clocker made first clock that could count to seconds, but was very difficult to replicate. Took another century for really reliable second hands. Still a rejection of movement away from aristotelian thought.
