Ap Euro Chapter 14
Chapter Overview:
Due to science and the discovery of a “heliocentric” universe, there was a transformation of humankind’s perception of its place in the larger scheme of things.
This new worldview led to new thinking about moral and religious matters, as well as scientific theory.
New ideas and methods of science challenged modes of thought associated with late medieval times like scholasticism and philosophy.
The Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the Americas presented new uncertainties that caused Europeans to question their souls, geographical knowledge, and physical nature.
Section One: The Scientific Revolution
Section Overview
The process that resulted in the view of the universe is typically called the Scientific Revolution.
The Scientific Revolution was not rapid as it took the brilliant minds of dislocated scientists in laboratories in Poland, Italy, Denmark, Bohemia, France and Great Britain, as well as many local artisans they hired to help created instruments for study to produce this new science.
During the fifteenth century, individuals interested in natural philosophy worked at universities, in home workshops, or the courts of royal families; it wasn’t until the late seventeenth century that formal societies and academies devoted to science were founded.
Science became the greatest cultural authority in the western world.
Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe
Biographical information
Polish priest and scientist educated at the University of Krakow wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs/Spheres in 1543
Commissioned to find astronomical justification so that the papacy could change the calendar so that it could correctly calculate the date of Easter, Copernicus’s work provided an intellectual springboard from which scientist could posit questions about Earth’s position in the universe.
Was not published when he was alive because he thought he would be burned since it went against the church
Also,
Due to science and the discovery of a “heliocentric” universe, there was a transformation of humankind’s perception of its place in the larger scheme of things.
This new worldview led to new thinking about moral and religious matters, as well as scientific theory.
New ideas and methods of science challenged modes of thought associated with late medieval times like scholasticism and philosophy.
The Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the Americas presented new uncertainties that caused Europeans to question their souls, geographical knowledge, and physical nature.
Section One: The Scientific Revolution
Section Overview
The process that resulted in the view of the universe is typically called the Scientific Revolution.
The Scientific Revolution was not rapid as it took the brilliant minds of dislocated scientists in laboratories in Poland, Italy, Denmark, Bohemia, France and Great Britain, as well as many local artisans they hired to help created instruments for study to produce this new science.
During the fifteenth century, individuals interested in natural philosophy worked at universities, in home workshops, or the courts of royal families; it wasn’t until the late seventeenth century that formal societies and academies devoted to science were founded.
Science became the greatest cultural authority in the western world.
Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe
Biographical information
Polish priest and scientist educated at the University of Krakow wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs/Spheres in 1543
Commissioned to find astronomical justification so that the papacy could change the calendar so that it could correctly calculate the date of Easter, Copernicus’s work provided an intellectual springboard from which scientist could posit questions about Earth’s position in the universe.
Was not published when he was alive because he thought he would be burned since it went against the church
Also,