HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I. Slavery in AfricaII. The Sugar EconomyIII. New World Slavery-some #’sIV. Slavery and ModernityOutline of Current Lecture I. Starting place: Living in a supernatural worldA. What happened in nature really affected them1. Looked to supernatural forces to explain nature2. Supernatural dominates material even though you can’t see or touch supernatural3. 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 processes1. This is the trigger for a long period of intellectual crisisII. 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 applicationC. Demystification of the universe1. Nature was predictable and open to human understanding2. Mechanistic world view-nature is like a machineIII. Sir Francis Bacon and the empirical worldA. Science can’t advance unless we drop everything we knowB. Empirical knowledge-knowledge obtained through observation, senses, experienceIV. The astronomersA. Heliocentric view-sun is the center of the universe; up until now, earth was center of universe (geocentric)B. Copernicus1. Polish priestThese 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.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 365days3. Ideas condemned, but starts the ball rollingC. Johann Kepler1. Planets move in elliptical pattern, not circular2. Essential laws of planetary motion3. Math is a language of GodD. Galileo Galilei 1. Built telescope-discovered moons of Jupiter, rings of Saturn, craters and mountains on moon2. Determined the milky way to be a galaxy independent of our solar system3. Arrested in inquisition, house arrest for lifeE. Isaac Newton1. Alchemist2. Wrote Principia Mathematica 3. Estimated length of milky way4. World is orderly, natural mechanismV. An age of intellectual crisisA. Challenge to church as an authorityB. Contributes to degradation of manC. Relativism-absolute truth cannot be knownD.
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