Analyze how Galileo, Descartes, and Newton altered traditional interpretations of nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge.
Thesis: Newton, Galileo and Descartes pioneered a new view of the world with Galileo’s discoveries in the workings of the universe, Newton’s new understanding of the laws that govern the universe and Descartes introspection of the human mind itself, all of which were challenged by the church.
Galileo: Beliefs before:
Ptolemy
Geocentric Universe
Perfectly circular rotations of planets
Planets=perfect and incorruptible
…Telescope
Mountains and craters on moonàPlanets made of same stuff as earth The Starry Messenger made Europeans more aware of universe
Condemned by church for Copernicism Dialogue
Principle of Inertia
Newton:
Invented calculus
Composition of light
Gravity Principia
Newton’s world machine
Descartes: Discourse on Method
Idea of perfection could only come from god
Cartesian Dualism
Mind vs. Matter
Matter is dead and inert and can be viewed with reason
Modern rationalism
I think, therefore I am
Index of Forbidden books
Analyze how Galileo, Descartes, and Newton altered traditional interpretations of nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge.
Thesis: Newton, Galileo and Descartes pioneered a new view of the world with Galileo’s discoveries in the workings of the universe, Newton’s new understanding of the laws that govern the universe and Descartes introspection of the human mind itself, all of which were challenged by the church.
Galileo:
Beliefs before:
Ptolemy
Geocentric Universe
Perfectly circular rotations of planets
Planets=perfect and incorruptible
…Telescope
Mountains and craters on moonàPlanets made of same stuff as earth
The Starry Messenger made Europeans more aware of universe
Condemned by church for Copernicism
Dialogue
Principle of Inertia
Newton:
Invented calculus
Composition of light
Gravity
Principia
Newton’s world machine
Descartes:
Discourse on Method
Idea of perfection could only come from god
Cartesian Dualism
Mind vs. Matter
Matter is dead and inert and can be viewed with reason
Modern rationalism
I think, therefore I am
Index of Forbidden books