HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Scientific Revolution, Nicolaus Copernicus
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Galileo galilei (1564-1642: copernicus" de revolutionibus (1543) A movement away from belief in authority, based upon the authority having power, towards a world that is based on evidence. Revolution so profound that established an empirical means on what is true and how knowledge can be measured. This revolution can be attributed to two people: francis bacon and ren . This belief about how we can make true observations and make true conclusions, became something of an obsession. The world that functioned before descartes begged this question. This question was so big that it wasn"t asked. It was addressed in other ways that are more comforting. Acceptance of universal authorities that everyone accepted was true, and assumption of truth that provided the platform under which they would test other truths. Deductive method = aristotelian logic (major premise is true and minor premise is true, therefore the conclusion is true) Descartes and bacon said the whole deductive method was false and backwards.
