HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nicolaus Copernicus, Ptolemy, Geocentric Model
2 Feb 2016
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Enlightenment prd of time that corresponds to 1650s to late 180ss (roughly) massive prd of change. New way of thinking about the world. Ideas challenged more than scientific ideas challenged authority, absolutist rule, divine right of kings, cult of personality. Meeting in coffeehouses, trading info and newspapers against this background that we see these changes taking place. This is a eu that looks more like the one we see today. W/o reformation perhaps we wouldn"t have had these new discoveries when we did. Overlap of old and new lang superstition remaining while new ideas are coalescing. Massive changes under foot as imp as political transformation, changes in scientific thought altered how eus viewed world and interactions w/ others. Something happens in 16th and 17th c that spurs revolution and thinking. Happens in unis, workshops, private homes in poland, italy, scandinavia, w eu. ~100 ppl throughout expansive eu thinking diffly, writing and publishing.
