HIST 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Satanism, Inductive Reasoning, James Vi And I
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Policing witchcraft: obtaining a confession essence of fairness; Soul of the body; pituitary gland (where mind meets two different things: cartesian dualism body, empiricism vs. rationalism, empiricism: bacon, observing the natural world, rationalism: decartes, experimentation, key figures and achievements of the scientific revolution. Tycho brahe (1546-1601)- uses money to build observatory; looks at stars and charts them; remembered for massive partier and lost nose (golden nose); went to party, had to go to bathroom, bladder burst; Johannes kepler (1571-1630)-interprets data from brahe; orbits are olipitical; fathers of modern physics; very religious; showcase elegance of god. Galileo galilei (1564-1640)-telescope; observe and come to new conclusion about how it works; planets orbit around sun not earth; forced to recant ideas; Sir isaac newton (1642-1727) that will go unchallenged until einstein; Principia mathematic (1687)- lays out laws of motion; physical laws of universe. Francesco redi (1626-1697)- spontaneous generation, flies and maggots.
