HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Endocentric And Exocentric, Urinary Bladder Disease, Scholasticism
26 Aug 2016
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Rene descartes: a revolution in thought, medieval thought: reason and authority, aristotle, aquinas, and the scholastics. Christian scripture is most authority, next is aristotle. He was tutor to alexander the great. He wrote a book on ethics, physics, nature of reality, wrote on biology (bad) Salamanders like fire, they live in the flames. Taken more or less as the truth or the authority . If you get a different result from the text, then you did it wrong medieval time thinking. Thomas aquinas after aristotle, they turn to him, he is leader of the. Discovery of the new world, creates problems: the revolution in astronomy. If we"re just animals, why is there debate of morality : copernicus and more ancient authority. In 1548, polish astronomer working in northern italy published a book about the heavenly bodies. Had been working for 30 years to try to prove the system of the earth, sun, and solar system.
