HUMA 1970 Chapter Notes - Chapter essay: Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle, Copernican Revolution, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
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Science in a fictitious text: how speculation and skepticism unravels cosmological. Science and the humanities: nature and human nature. Bernard le bovier de fontenelle was an influential french author born in 1657, Rahman 2 situated at the repercussion of the french renaissance. He is noted particularly for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the age of enlightenment. The late 1600"s were still very fixated on the aristotelian worldview: a geocentric model of the universe. Additionally, primary knowledge was derived from universities, whose philosophical instruction largely abide by the tenets of scholastic aristotelianism. As a result the broad public lived in a dogmatic culture. Though a heliocentric model of the universe was introduced first in 15431 by nicholas copernicus, the ideas were controversial and hardly accessible to the average citizen. With the emergence of bernard le bovier de. Fontenelle"s dialogue first published in 1686, conversations on the plurality of the. This informal set of conversations set between a.
