HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I Slavery in Africa II The Sugar Economy III New World Slavery some s IV Slavery and Modernity Outline of Current Lecture I Starting place Living in a supernatural world A What happened in nature really affected them 1 Looked to supernatural forces to explain nature 2 Supernatural dominates material even though you can t see or touch supernatural 3 Belief in God belief in magic used to explain bad things B After 1650 s among elites stop seeing life as guided by magic and start seeing life as the product of natural processes 1 This is the trigger for a long period of intellectual crisis II What was different about the age of science A New figures begin thinking independently for the first time challenge authority of the ancients Aristotle B Knowledge is unimportant unless it has a practical application C Demystification of the universe 1 Nature was predictable and open to human understanding 2 Mechanistic world view nature is like a machine III Sir Francis Bacon and the empirical world A Science can t advance unless we drop everything we know B Empirical knowledge knowledge obtained through observation senses experience IV The astronomers A Heliocentric view sun is the center of the universe up until now earth was center of universe geocentric B Copernicus 1 Polish priest These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute V 2 Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 1543 asserts that Earth rotates around the sun rotates on axis once a day circles the sun in 365 days 3 Ideas condemned but starts the ball rolling C Johann Kepler 1 Planets move in elliptical pattern not circular 2 Essential laws of planetary motion 3 Math is a language of God D Galileo Galilei 1 Built telescope discovered moons of Jupiter rings of Saturn craters and mountains on moon 2 Determined the milky way to be a galaxy independent of our solar system 3 Arrested in inquisition house arrest for life E Isaac Newton 1 Alchemist 2 Wrote Principia Mathematica 3 Estimated length of milky way 4 World is orderly natural mechanism An age of intellectual crisis A Challenge to church as an authority B Contributes to degradation of man C Relativism absolute truth cannot be known D Skepticism doubting
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