HIS244H1 Chapter Notes -Natural Philosophy, Tabula Rasa, Cogito Ergo Sum
Document Summary
Near the end of the 17th century and start of the eighteenth century, catholic church in rome starts to feel pressure for the following reasons. The protestant revolution-papacy losing land in which the catholic reformation seemed to victorius. With scientific investigation on the rise and more people proclaiming its existence. Result- italian giordano bruno was burned along with books for proclaiming scientific investigation and galileo is called summoned to rome. Galileo escaped death penalty because the pope urban used to be his friend and accused him of supporting only polish scientists not of heresy. But still put in lifetime house arrest in 1633. Scientific revolution not due to new technologies rather to new ways of thinking about the university. Fourth century aristotle believed the earth to be the centre of the universe, ptomely not much change from aristotle"s view. Dante the poets writings reflect aristotle"s and ptomely"s views on the universe. Arabs contributed a lot to early astronomy, mathematics etc.
