HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Sidereus Nuncius, Natural Philosophy, Japanese Language
10 Mar 2014
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He moved to florence and worked as patron and invented telescope in 1609. He says that the moon has a mountainous surface. He saw 4 moons around the jupiter. they are called medician planets. He published letters on sunspots . this is the 1st physical evidence of copernican system. In 1616,copernicus" book was banned because certain passages are to be corrected. He spent his last 8 years in florence. He had put his 2 daughters in a convent at 13,12 ages. There was a scientific revolution from 1450-1650 in terms of aristotelian physics,sun replacing the centre of the earth. Bureaucracy in britain and france, increment in taxes. More research on mathematisation of heat rays in france. In britain, royal society doesn"t have any salaries. It became much more practical in britain and was mathematical in france. He became the president of the royal society. No mention of russia in american books till the 17th century.
