HIST-102 Lecture 21: Preconditions for the Scientific Revolution
29 Sep 2018
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Preconditions for the scientific revolution: new appreciation for the mysteries of nature, nature can be forced to revealed it"s secrets if people are willing to persevere in their inquiries. Tools of the trade: geometry and mathematics (3d art perspectives) from the. Greeks to use it many different fields and not just art. By the time of the renaissance, using geometery, you can see the coast line and roughly on proper scale of these maps. Certain ports and cities have rosette patterns coming out of them. These is what is known as portalan map. Astronomy and calendrics: calendrics is drawing up a calendar. When it comes to calculating movements of the planets, some very complex mathematics can be involved in terms of greek geometry. In late medieval times, there was a philosophy known as scholasticism . Aristotle who stresses deductive logical thinking of tight things, but from. 1250 onward, they rediscovered aristotle and are using those tools again.
