HIST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Tycho Brahe, Novum Organum, Nicolaus Copernicus
8 Aug 2013
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Chapter 14 summary: new directions in thought and culture in the 16th and. 17th centuries: natural philosophy at the time, challenged modes of thought associated with late medieval times, with new knowledge and science cam new wave of superstition and persecution. Scientific revolution: process that established new view of universe, scientific concepts and methods set standard for assessing validity of knowledge in western world. 2: attraction of gravity explained why planets moved in an orderly manner, believed in empiricism one must observe phenomena before attempting to explain them, great opponent of the rationalism of french philosopher rene descartes. Philosophy responds to changing science: bacon stressed importance of empirical research, descartes attempted to find certainty through exploration of his own thinking processes. Francis bacon (1561-1626): empirical method: englishman; lawyer; high royal official; author of histories, moral essays, and philosophical discourses, graded as father of empiricism and of experimentation in science, the advancement of learning (1605), novum organum (1620), the new.
