HWH Unit 3 Chapter 1.5
A New World-View Connections to the Renaissance and the Reformation A re-examination of ancient texts Skepticism toward old assumptions Challenging the Catholic Church
The Old World-View Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Geocentrism
Support for Geocentrism Aristotle’s logic Ptolemy’s math The Bible
Copernicus and Heliocentrism Nicolaus Copernicus ( ) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Support for Copernicus Tycho Brahe ( ) Observational support for Copernicus Johannes Kepler ( ) Elliptical orbits
Galileo Galilei ( )
Galileo and the Inquisition
Bacon, Descartes, and the Scientific Method Francis Bacon ( )Rene Descartes ( )
Baconian Thought Empiricism Inductive reasoning ○ Start with a question, end with a certainty
Cartesian Thought Systematic doubt “Cogito ergo sum” Deductive reasoning Rationalism
Modern Application Baconian empiricism and induction +Cartesian rationalism and deduction =The modern scientific method
Andreas Vesalius ( ) The Structure of the Human Body (1543)
William Harvey ( ) On the Movement of the Heart and Blood (1628)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek ( )
Sir Isaac Newton ( )