A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

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In 1633, ecclesiastical authorities summoned the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) to Rome to face the Inquis ...

288 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science free of the bonds of tradition, these seventeenth-century thinkers devel­ oped the sci ...

Changing Views of the Universe 289 the study of nature to explain the mysterious ways of God. Church savants never raised the po ...

290 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science scholars who studied such problems. Medieval scientists made lasting con­ tributions i ...

Changing Views of the Universe 291 he read medieval scientific and humanist texts. Also trained as a doctor and portrait painter ...

292 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science calculations. He could not explain why there was no constant wind from the east, which ...

Changing Views of the Universe 293 on apes, assuming that animal and human bodies were essentially the same in the arrangement o ...

294 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science planets rotating around the sun, which in turn moved around the station­ ary earth. In ...

Changing Views of the Universe 295 that Kepler was Protestant, appointed him to succeed Brahe as imperial mathematician. Kepler ...

296 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science even overcome their physical environment. Through inductive reasoning— that is, procee ...

Changing Views of the Universe 297 Aristotelian explanations of motion as well as the question of the rela­ tionship between the ...

298 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science moon and planets through my glass, which he obstinately refused to do. Why are you not ...

Descartes and Newton: Competing Theories of Scientific Knowledge 299 Any person, Descartes claimed, has to begin as a blank slat ...

300 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science The Newtonian Synthesis Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) built upon the thought of Kepler, ...

Descartes and Newton: Competing Theories of Scientific Knowledge 301 telescopes had used a refracting lens). Newtons first paper ...

302 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science Expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam in 1656 for refusing to participate in ...

The Culture of Science 303 London, a bequest made possible the establishment of Gresham College, which became a center for scien ...

304 Ch. 8 • The New Philosophy Of Science The Newcastle circle hosted by the duke and duchess of Newcastle. Margaret Cavendish, ...

The Culture of Science 305 Testelin’s tapestry of the establishment of the French Royal Academy of Science, 1666, and the Founda ...