Whitney Noonan
Philosophy of Revolution
2/29/2016
At the beginning of the scientific era people were not only shocked but also spiritually threatened by the new discovery that the Sun was actually in the center not the Earth. The “new philosophy” (since there was no word for “science” at the time) is the Copernican revolution. In 1610 Galileo had published the world’s first scientific bestseller, The Starry Messenger. This revolutionary work argued that the heavens are not organized the way astronomers, philosophers, and theologians had taught for ages (Alvarez & Leitão, 2010). As far as was concerned, however, Galileo’s ideas threatened not only the origin and development of the universe, but of Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy but also the …show more content…
Above the Moon’s orbit the heavens seemed immune to change, novelty, and collapse. Their immutability pointed both minds and hearts toward a better and more permanent world than that which existed on Earth. Aristotle had even portrayed the heavens as a “quintessential” (fifth) kind of reality far surpassing in value the four mundane elements (earth, air, fire, and water) that make up the sublunary world (Alvarez & Leitão, 2010). In contrast to imperfect earthly things that change and eventually perish, the heavens seemed to mirror the changeless eternity of …show more content…
At this time, going against what the church teaches was considered a heretical, but that did not stop Copernicus. He wanted to find the truth about the universe and went through great risks and complications to get there. The Copernican Theory is a revolution that sparked many great ideas to a further understanding of the universe. With his work and work from other astronomers, there is now a logical explanation as to why and how the planets and moon move around the Sun. Even knowing this concept is slowly whittling away at God 's image, Copernicus discovered one of the universe 's great
Philosophy of Revolution
2/29/2016
At the beginning of the scientific era people were not only shocked but also spiritually threatened by the new discovery that the Sun was actually in the center not the Earth. The “new philosophy” (since there was no word for “science” at the time) is the Copernican revolution. In 1610 Galileo had published the world’s first scientific bestseller, The Starry Messenger. This revolutionary work argued that the heavens are not organized the way astronomers, philosophers, and theologians had taught for ages (Alvarez & Leitão, 2010). As far as was concerned, however, Galileo’s ideas threatened not only the origin and development of the universe, but of Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy but also the …show more content…
Above the Moon’s orbit the heavens seemed immune to change, novelty, and collapse. Their immutability pointed both minds and hearts toward a better and more permanent world than that which existed on Earth. Aristotle had even portrayed the heavens as a “quintessential” (fifth) kind of reality far surpassing in value the four mundane elements (earth, air, fire, and water) that make up the sublunary world (Alvarez & Leitão, 2010). In contrast to imperfect earthly things that change and eventually perish, the heavens seemed to mirror the changeless eternity of …show more content…
At this time, going against what the church teaches was considered a heretical, but that did not stop Copernicus. He wanted to find the truth about the universe and went through great risks and complications to get there. The Copernican Theory is a revolution that sparked many great ideas to a further understanding of the universe. With his work and work from other astronomers, there is now a logical explanation as to why and how the planets and moon move around the Sun. Even knowing this concept is slowly whittling away at God 's image, Copernicus discovered one of the universe 's great