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Toward a new world view 1540-1789 * The scientific revolution * Scientific thought in 1500 * Thomas Aquinas- brought Aristotelian philosophy into harmony with christen doctrine * Ptolemy- planets move in epicycles * Origins of the scientific revolution * Permanent universities * Recovery of ancient works * Printing press * Copernican hypothesis * Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543- polish cleric * On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 1543 * Challenges to Aristotelian philosophy * Stars at rest planetary movement * large universe * earth was just another planet * challenged by Calvin and Luther * Proving Copernicus right * Tycho Brahe- 1546-1601 * Built most sophisticated observatory in 1572 * Developed Rudolph Tables * Johannes Kepler -1571-1630 * Developed three new and revolutionary laws of planetary motion * orbits of the planets around the sun are elliptical rather than circular * planets do not move at a uniform speed in their orbits * Kepler published the first two laws in his 1609 book, The New Astronomy * The time of plan it takes to make its complete orbit is precisely related to insist on * In 1627 fulfilled berets pledged by completing the Rudolph fine type tables * Pioneered the field of optics, invented an improved telescope * Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 * His great achievement was the elaboration and consolidation of the experiential method * Formulated the law of inertia – his discoveries proved Aristotelian physics wrong * Discovered the first four moons of Jupiter * Galileo was tried for heresy by the public relations, imprisoned and threatened with

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