Taylor Cockrell
The Universe: its many theories Throughout history, knowledge and ideas have been passed on and tossed around about how we all came to inhabit this earth, this Universe. Many theories came from the Ancient Greeks, Romans and many different interpretations of the Christian Bible! In this essay I will talk about three main points throughout history that impacted how the universe can be interpreted, through theories. How the Ancient Greeks impacted thought and their ideas, Nicolaus Copernicus the Polish astronomer, and Galileo Galilei the Italian mathematician and their theories. First, the Ancient Greeks were the initial driving force behind the development of Western astronomy and science as a whole. Their philosophers who …show more content…
Objects that appeared one way to the naked eye now came off in another completely different way when looked through and magnified glass the “spyglass” as he called it. The moon was given new characteristics, such as being full of craters all over its surface, rather than a perfectly smooth and surface as we thought of before. With his new device there was many new questions arriving the “heavens” which were perfect and never changed. Traditional science was shaken even more than ever, when Galileo showed that Venus appeared to change shape, much like the moon with its many phases. Providing evidence for the relatively new theory that the planets, including Earth, revolved around the sun, rather than the sun and other planets revolving around the Earth. He found not only to educated astronomers and scientists, but with other educated members of society as well. Staging numerous public showings and demonstrations of his new astronomical instrument, and the first one took place on top of one of the city gates of Rome in 1611. In order to convince the skeptical believers, Galileo turned the telescope around and toward familiar landmarks in the city. Galileo’s discoveries were part of what historians called the Scientific Revolution! Changing the way Europeans viewed the natural world, as well as making people reevaluate their selves. Which lead to many controversies in areas like, Religion, philosophy, and Politics as well as changes in Military technology? Setting the West apart from civilizations of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and provided a basis for the claims of western superiority over those people inhabiting the land. Changing culture in the West, by the end of the seventeenth century resulting from the complex interactions among scholars proposing different ideas of how nature operated. Some of the theories and ideas originated from Ancient Greece, others from the Christian Bible, and
The Universe: its many theories Throughout history, knowledge and ideas have been passed on and tossed around about how we all came to inhabit this earth, this Universe. Many theories came from the Ancient Greeks, Romans and many different interpretations of the Christian Bible! In this essay I will talk about three main points throughout history that impacted how the universe can be interpreted, through theories. How the Ancient Greeks impacted thought and their ideas, Nicolaus Copernicus the Polish astronomer, and Galileo Galilei the Italian mathematician and their theories. First, the Ancient Greeks were the initial driving force behind the development of Western astronomy and science as a whole. Their philosophers who …show more content…
Objects that appeared one way to the naked eye now came off in another completely different way when looked through and magnified glass the “spyglass” as he called it. The moon was given new characteristics, such as being full of craters all over its surface, rather than a perfectly smooth and surface as we thought of before. With his new device there was many new questions arriving the “heavens” which were perfect and never changed. Traditional science was shaken even more than ever, when Galileo showed that Venus appeared to change shape, much like the moon with its many phases. Providing evidence for the relatively new theory that the planets, including Earth, revolved around the sun, rather than the sun and other planets revolving around the Earth. He found not only to educated astronomers and scientists, but with other educated members of society as well. Staging numerous public showings and demonstrations of his new astronomical instrument, and the first one took place on top of one of the city gates of Rome in 1611. In order to convince the skeptical believers, Galileo turned the telescope around and toward familiar landmarks in the city. Galileo’s discoveries were part of what historians called the Scientific Revolution! Changing the way Europeans viewed the natural world, as well as making people reevaluate their selves. Which lead to many controversies in areas like, Religion, philosophy, and Politics as well as changes in Military technology? Setting the West apart from civilizations of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and provided a basis for the claims of western superiority over those people inhabiting the land. Changing culture in the West, by the end of the seventeenth century resulting from the complex interactions among scholars proposing different ideas of how nature operated. Some of the theories and ideas originated from Ancient Greece, others from the Christian Bible, and