Bellringer1. According to Descartes, what is the only thing we

can prove?

2. Draw a diagram of our solar system (8 or so planets + the sun)

What do you think of nerds?

Scientific Revolution notes

What does this mean?• Psalms 93:1

The Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

• Isaiah 40:22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Scientific Revolution 1600’s

• Name this model:

• Geocentric

• 2 + ways people would have believed this model

• 2 ways to test it

Scientific Revolution 1600’s

• Name this theory

• Heliocentric theory

• Copernicus (Poland): heliocentric theory

• Galileo (Italy): telescopes

• Kepler (Germany): elliptical orbits

Galileo

Galileo - Jupiter

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630exploration?

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Catholic Church on Galileo• A decree of February 19, 1616:

• (1) The sun is the center of the world and wholly immovable from its place.

• Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared "foolish and absurd. philosophically and formally heretical inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrine of the Holy Scripture in many passages, both in their literal meaning and according to the general interpretation of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of theology."

• (2) The earth is not the center of the world, nor immovable, but it moves as a whole, also with diurnal motion.

• Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared "deserving of the like censure in philosophy, and as regards theological truth, to be at least errouneous in faith."

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