HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nicolaus Copernicus, Billiard Ball, Socratic Dialogue
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The crusades open up the western world to the rest of the world through trade. They then discover that the muslims have more work of. Passover and easter however have a connection. promptly died after. He argues that they found these old greek texts and the. Joannis kepler is his last this in a socratic dialogue: he was put on trial between house arrest or being burned alive. He basically then took back his beliefs to stay alive and continue his work but all the while on the moon. He also discovers that other planets have moons. He argues with the index and the inquisition. He gets permission to publish a there is a connection between the closeness of the earth to the sun and how fast it moves due to this. The closer the earth gets to the sun the faster it assistant. He builds an observatory on his estate and takes obsessively precise calculations of astronomy.
