Renaissance And Enlightenment Essay

The farther back one’s goes in history the murkier beginnings and endings get. Beginnings and ending in this case are time periods, or more specifically the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Part of this is due to the slow spread across Europe in the time long before Internet and phones. Another reason is the natural progression from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It makes sense that all of the humanism in the Renaissance would morph into using the full spectrum of human talent and experience to understand and reason out the world and test it’s boundaries. Galileo embodies traits of both of these eras often as he began to put these ideas into practice and push against long established ideas of religion and how it fits in the world. Galileo Galilei wrote the “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany” in 1615. Galileo was Italian Renaissance man known for his work in astronomy, math, and physics. …show more content…
Another argument Galileo wrote was ‘that the same God’ that had given humankind the gifts of ‘reason and intellect’ wanted people to use them. The point of his argument is that if God did not wish for people to wonder and gaze into the sky and pull apart its inner workings people would not have the ability to do so. Galileo argued the Bible’s gaps further when questioned the Bible’s title of ‘queen’ in all matters. He did not deny the Bible was the ‘queen’ of theology, but for other topics such as geometry or astronomy that there were other sources and writers with more authority. He stresses this point further when he argues for points that because the Bible is not the authority in science related matter people should look to other sources