HUM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Geocentric Model, Scientific Revolution, Pragmatics
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Lecture 3: the scientific revolution: how and what motivate the (cid:440)scientific revolution(cid:441), medieval and renaissance thought used to dominate science. Only because of the reformation and the 95 theses by martin luther that it gave europe a chance to rethink about their old ways: physics/cosmology: ppl of the middle age used aristotle x ptolemy x. Saw their ways of life satisfiable & there shouldn"t be a reason to ruin this harmony. Reformation was a radical move: roots: scholars continued to debate, printing press allowed more works around europe, art & pragmatics elevated reasoning, discovery of the new. His equations were so good that he can calculate the location of the objects in whichever year he wants. Ptolemaic universe: believed earth to be in the center & heaven layer outside the circle - where you join w/ god after you die. Ptolemy"s equation was, but wondered why god"s solar system calculations would be so clumsy.
