HIST 3A Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Scientific Method, Anabaptism, Hermes Trismegistus
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Platonic forms: the perfect, atemporal, aspatial essence of an object. Discovered the americas for spain and the rest of the western european world. The document was the beginning of luther"s challenge to. Church order and authority: importance: the 95 theses were important because it began luther"s challenge to papal authority, to the structure of christianity, and to the medieval hierarchy, as it was largely religiously based. Luther refused and his challenge was cemented: importance: the diet of worms was important because it began luther"s challenge to papal authority, to the structure of christianity, and to the medieval hierarchy, as it was largely religiously based. This model contrasted with the biblically implied and ptolemaic, geocentric models: importance: this system was significant because it was a challenge to the established, religiously endorsed belief that the earth was the center of the universe.
