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New associations |
New istitutes began to arise that challenged the churches monopoly on intelligence, they offered a utilitarian way of thinking. Examples are the Royal society (1662) and academie de sciences in paris (1666). Sponsored by wealthy patrons and attracted by educated urban middle class. |
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expanding literacy |
After 1700's England may have become the most literate country in the world. This was thanks to the invention of the printing press and protestant reformers putting importance on education. |
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recalling Plato |
Italian renaissance thinkers were attracted to platos view of an invisible ultimate reality, one that was simple and obtainable. This view that everything about nature could in fact be learned and used to benefit human beings led to the expansion of natural philosophy, alchemy and astrology. |
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challenging the ptolemaic orbits |
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), was a Roman Catholic priest who challenged the ptolemaic orbits. As far back as the ancient Greeks a heliocentric model was proposed. |
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Tycho brahe and Johannes Kepler |
Tycho spent 20 years observing the heavens from the Baltic. Wen he passed his student took up his work, from these observations it was observed that the planets moved in ellipses not circles. |
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Galileo |
A renaissance man, he disproved aristotles theory that the moon is a smooth sphere and discovered three moons of jupiter, thus ruining the superlunary position. |
