HIST 1003 Chapter : 1/28/2015 - Scientific Revolution And Ways Of Knowing
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It"s about how we relate to knowledge and how we relate to the world. No women were allowed to study: advanced faculties: law, theology, medicine like what nowadays we would consider. Liberal arts (usually learned before university): rhetoric, grammar, logic, geometry, music, moral philosophy, natural philosophy. It"s natural philosophy a philosophy of nature; that was as close as people got to studying science back then. ~ new advances weren"t really being made; philosophical ways of thinking about nature based on aristotle"s teachings. He said there were four main elements: earth, water, air, fire. ~ if there was something you wanted to understand scientifically, you"d have to explain it based on these properties. ~ all phenomena explained in terms of interaction, change of these elements. ~ concerned with the ultimate answer of why things are how they are. Where does the scientific revolution take root and spread: royal academies (set up by monarchs) ~ most famous academie of science in paris.
