PSY BEH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Stuart Mill, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Deferent And Epicycle

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 11A
• Professor: Bruce Berg

Document Summary

The age of enlightenment and the scientific revolution (16th to 18th century) The saga of galileo and his telescope is often viewed as a precipitating event in the scientific revolution: it presents a classic example of the enduring conflict between rationalism and empiricism, and between science and religion. Professor doesn"t think it"s necessary to create a contrast between science and religion since these are two separate subjects; you don"t try to compare science and economy, for example. Ptolemaic universe (geocentric: planets comes from the greek term for wanderers. The accepted view of the solar system in the early 1600s was the ptolemaic universe, which was consistent with religious doctrine: epicycles on epicycles. Planets orbit around an empty epicenter in space: earth in the center. Copernicus spent 30 years developing his hypothesis of a heliocentric solar system. 1543 (just a few weeks before his death)