HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Novum Organum, Immanuel Kant, Tabula Rasa
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Dare to know have to courage to know. Methods of natural science could/should be used to figure out the world. Scientific method capable to discover human laws of society and nature. Progress armed correctly possible to create a better world (society and people) Through the middle ages based off views of classical authors plato/aristotle. Greeco-roman view of the heliocentric planter system. 1543 copernicus on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres. Investigated classical text and math did not match. 1609 kepler on the motion of mars. 1628 william harvey on the circulation of blood. 1632 galileo dialouges on the two chief systems of the world. Church was upset because of the objection to authority. Brought kepler and copernicus thoughts together and discovered gravity. Christian religion and reality not related; diversity = healthiness. Not attack against christianity but church rule. Guttenburg built the printing press 1440: more production larger access to more sources of literature, affordability, higher learning, variety, ideas conflict.
