HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Geocentric Model, Scientific Revolution, Humorism
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A series of discoveries between 1500-1700 in europe b. i. Europeans had to reevaluate a lot of their earlier beliefs b. ii. Affects the way that we as human beings know things: discoveries are based in the scientific method c. i. You don"t just believe what other people tell you: if there"s a specific issue, you think about the problem, you do experiments, and keep testing c. ii. Major change in how europeans acquired their knowledge c. ii. 1. Before this, relied very heavily on the knowledge of the ancient greeks c. ii. 2. 1000s, europe begins to relearn the ancient greek scholarship from the muslims, and these teachings start to become accepted by the. People in western europe start to rediscover ancient greek and. Start hunting down books that had been forgotten about d. ii. Main greek city, constantinople, in 1453, had been captured by the people of. Turkey, causing scholars to head to europe d. ii. 1.
