1600's, The Scientific Revolution Flashcards
Who created new physics based on the concept of universal gravitation
Sir Isaac Newton
Who created the new view of the cosmos
Galileo in the 17th century, based on empirical and mathematical investigation
Who challenged aristotles idea of the cosmos
Galileo
Newton claimed
The world was held together by a single force of universal gravitation.
What were aristotles terrestrial and celestial realms
The two halves in which the cosmos was divided.
- terrestrial was all matter inside orbit of the moon
- celestial was the heavens, all that existed outside the orbit of the moon
Platonic-Pythagorean Tradition
Ancient mathematically oriented school which had as its goal the identification of the fundamental mathematical laws of nature
Neoplatonism
Located reality in a changeless world of spirit or forms, rather than in the physical world we experience.
Hermeticism
taught that the world was infused with a single spirit that could be explored through mathematics aswell as through magic
Why did kings, Dukes, and other ruling nobles patronize great artists, musicians, and natural philosophers
It was a determinant of wealth and status in society to do this.
Why did the church dislike Copernicus’ claims for heliocentrism
It questioned he authority of Aristotle,
Contradicted all known physics,
Destroyed theological coherence of the cosmos,
It required the church to admit it had been in error
Who developed the three laws of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
What were keplers laws?
- Elliptical planetary orbits.
- Planet velocity varied according to its distance from the sun
- Planets are in the same ratio as the cubes of their average distance from the sun.
