HIS-3464 Final: Final Study Guide HIS3464
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Marco polo was a merchant and ibn battuta was a traveler. Road where the people traded from europe and asia. A rebirth of interest in antiquity (greeks, little bit of romans). The printing press and the plague fuel the reformation by providing spread of information, it was hard to censor, and individualism. All science is done in a paradigm. Paradigms shift and new questions are asked that are not specifically better but different. Found the middle ground between aristotle and ptolemy where he put the sun in the center. Maybe it was a copernican revolution because the church did not believe that the sun was in the middle. Tychonic system where the earth revolves around the sun but everything else revolves around the earth. Developed the kepler"s laws: planets move in a ellipse with the sun in one focus. Planet away from sun goes slower than when it gets closer to sun.
