During the Scientific Revolution scientists such as Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes and Bacon wrestled with questions about God, human aptitude, and the possibilities of understanding the world. Eventually, the implications of the new scientific findings began to affect the way people thought and behaved throughout Europe. Society began to question the authority of traditional knowledge about the universe. This in turn, allowed them to question traditional views of the state and social order. No longer
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paved the path to the modernization of science and technology. To start, Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory of a heliocentric universe drastically changed the way that Europeans viewed the universe and set the path for future scientists. Furthermore, Galileo Galilei’s invention
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between science and religion in Life of Galileo encompasses the conflict between the individual and the state. Lined up on opposing sides are the supremely powerful Catholic Church and the naively confident scientist. It is an unequal contest from the start. Galileo, armed with his telescope and his belief in ‘the seduction of proof’, is no match for the omnipotence of Rome, whose biblical scholars refuse to disrupt the Aristotelian ‘harmony’ of the universe. Galileo continues to resist however the church
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to question the decisions and ideas of authority, to support this argument one can look into specific historical figures and events. Galileo, Fleming, and the Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education all exemplify the importance of questioning authority. The famous scientific figure Galileo reflects the importance of questioning authority. In 1616, Galileo was forbidden from holding or defending his belief that the Earth revolved around the sun. The Catholic Church, who believed that the
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to me like they hit the ground at exactly the same moment. So much for Aristotle! Galileo, who had a flair for the theatrical, did the experiment by dropping a bullet and a heavy cannonball from a tall tower. Aristotle's observations had been incomplete, his interpretation a vast oversimplification. It is inconceivable that Galileo was the first person to observe a discrepancy with Aristotle's predictions. Galileo was the one who changed the course of history because he was able to assemble the
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16th and 17th century that would lay out the groundwork for the scientific revolution. Just as Europe saw major changes in their political system with the addition of mercantilism, sciences witnessed a major reform in their field. Scientists such as Galileo and Copernicus contributed greatly to the astronomical sciences. Other like Newton discovered completely new theories and ideas. All of these scientists were affected by similar political and religious factors. The works of scientists were both negatively
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such as Isaac Newton and Galileo were major factors that contributed to a new level of thinking and established proper scientific investigations and a whole new level of thinking. The church dominated much of the thinking of this time and the Catholic Church condemned heliocentrism, which was the theory that the planets and Earth revolve around the sun and the sun is stationary at the center of the universe, and Galileo was warned to abandon his support for it. Galileo was a scientist who played
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Project Over the past several hundred years there have been many great scientists that have come up with significant ideas and theories in the scientific field of gravitational research. These scientists include but are not limited to Aristotle, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein! Each one of these scientist have come along after another, using each other’s ideas to further expand the human species’ knowledge on gravity and how it works. They have each left a unique mark on the scientific community
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science and math helped change around the culture and arts in Europe. The three people that will be discussed in this paper, which had a part in the renaissance will be Michelangelo, Galileo, and William Shakespeare. Michelangelo was a great artist during the renaissance, he sculpted, painted, and did architecture. Galileo was a scientist who was a mathematician and an astronomer who had breakthrough views on the solar system. William Shakespeare was an English writer who changed the perspective on how
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Galileo Aristotle Prometheus Dogmas: Different religious texts, Qur’an. 1. The internet: example (google, Wikipedia) 2. The constitution 3. Political texts 4. Can be ideas 5. Science Critical Questions for Galileo. Vocabulary Peripatetic is another word for Aristotelian. Ipse dixit = Latin for “having said so” Primum mobile = first, or prime, mover Note that this is an excerpted text: some of the arguments that seem missing are covered, thoroughly, in the full book
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