PHI215 --- Film Response Form Daniel Wray‚ Instructor Name: ______Denise M Porter________________ Date: ____March 24‚ 2012___ Title of Film: ______Science Revises the Heavens___________________________ Summarize the theme(s) or thesis of the film: The film discusses the different discoveries (mostly in astronomy) which led to the scientific revolution. List important facts or points you observe in the film: · In today’s world: 1. Space exploration 2. Genes are engineered
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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
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The Europeans were motivated to embark on voyages for discovery had many motives. One motivation was to find the fantastic lands described in works such as the Travels of Mandeville and the legends of the magical kingdom of Prester John. Columbus even took a copy of Marco Polos Travels with him on his voyages. The most important motive was economic. The conquests of the Ottoman Turks had cut the Europeans off from trade with Asia. The overland trade routes were controlled by the Arab Muslims
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1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres‚ a book which criticized the geocentric theory of the universe‚ challenged the Ptolemaic system and established a heliocentric model of the universe (the sun is the center of the universe). Then‚ Tycho Brahe continued the work on Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. Brahe’s research was then passed down to Johannes Kepler‚ who created the first astronomical model of a heliocentric universe. In 1609 Kepler published The
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progresses in mathematics and astronomy transformed views of society and nature. For example humans as Newton gives new ideas that contributed to the scientific revolution‚ like “The replacement of the Earth as center of the universe by heliocentric theory.” Moreover Isaac Newton explained the elliptical orbits of the planets and he advanced the law of universal gravitation. Furthermore Nicolaus Copernicus worked on the heliocentric model of the solar system‚ in which he tried to demonstrate that the sun
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far beyond the current worldview to a startling new vision of reality that has far-reaching repercussions for both science and religion. We may be standing on the threshold of changes even more fundamental and far-reaching than those initiated by Copernicus. The Geocentric Universe Five hundred years ago‚ as the Middle Ages began to give way to the Renaissance‚ the reality within which most people lived and conducted their affairs was one in which human beings played a pre-eminent role; everything
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1.|So far as we know‚ the first person who claimed that natural phenomena could be described by mathematics was| |A) Copernicus. B) Pythagoras. C) Aristotle. D) Ptolemy.| |Ans: BSection: Chapter 2‚ Introduction| 2.|The ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras held the view that| A)|triangles do not exist.| B)|natural phenomena are wonderful to watch but cannot be described by mathematics.| C)|the Sun is at the center of the planetary system.| D)|natural phenomena can be described
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----------------------------------------------- PH133: Revolution of Science What is modern science? * Study of nature that is observable empirical mathematics * No straight-out definition * It used to be called “Natural Philosophy” before “Science” * Science was first used in 1830 by William Whewhell Bacon’s Inductive Method 1. Ancient 2. Medieval 3. Renaissance 4. Modern 5. Contemporary Pythagoras: universe was made up of numbers Lenappus Democritus: The
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eventually led to the Copernicus theory and Tycho Brahe which then led to Kepler’s own discoveries. Kepler idea of planets having elliptical pathways “set forth the first astronomical (portrayal of ) motion “ which was the starting point of changing how one sees a difference in their universe of location wise while also with how we look at it mathematically (205). Galileo and Sir Isaac newton gave many leaps in the field of mathematics in relation to the universe. Galileo seeing of the stars when
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to the publication of Copernicus ’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium as the starting point in 1543. This text‚ quite plainly‚ introduced the heliocentric theory of the solar system‚ rejecting the Aristotelian Ptolemaic system of geocentrism. It completely changed the way that people thought of the heavens‚ though it ’s theories were not seen as controversial until 60 years later‚ when a scientist began using telescopes to prove Copernicus correct. This scientist was Galileo Galilei‚ an Italian who
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