UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primogeniture, A Perfect Circle, Tudor Period

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Undergraduate College
• Course: UGC 112
• Professor: Boyd Timothy

Document Summary

Questions many of the things that are just accepted to be true at this time. Greeks and romans both believed in geocentric (earth centered universe) Greeks knew that the earth was round; eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth. The greeks are responsible for the geocentric model, the romans then adopted it, first by. There were spheres in this model for all known planets and stars, some fixed and some moving. Outside of the spheres is heaven; the reason that the spheres are even rotating is angels. Kepler theor(cid:455) that (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) these o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)atio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of brahe"s (cid:449)ork. Galileo new discoveries in the night sky; culminates much of this research and takes much of the blame for it, especially with the church; telescope, particularly adapting/improving it for looking at the sky. Tons of doubt and questions being raised. Focus on new type of reasoning: inductive reasoning using observations to make a theory, rather than the other way around.