It was during the 16th and 17th centuries when man's view of the unvierse and himself

changed drastically. This came after a millenium of repetition and stagnation in the

development of science. People finally began questioning what they were told, and they

went out to find proof rather than assuming on the basis of authority and common sense.

These advances in astronomy and medicine came about in the same era, and were not

unparallel in their development. In both fields were some very notable people who

contributed greatly to the devolopment in these areas. In the field of astronomy

Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo shed Aristotle's, Plato's, and Ptolemy's views of

the universe. In medicine Paraclesus, Vesalius, and Harvey did away with Galen's

Ancient Greeks believed that the Earth was stationary, they concluded this by

making some basic obsevations. One being that the Earth cannot be part of the 'heavens'

because celestial bodies are bright points of light, whereas the Earth is a nonluminous

sphere of mud and rock. Also in the heavens there is very little change, the same stars are

there night after night, only five pla

belief that the sun was a copy of God, God gave us life and the sun kept us alive. This

everything that it was told, and had gone out to prove it for himself. The human body

spinning everything would fly off due to the centrifugal force. It was thought that with

Boorstin puts it in The Discovers, was finally over. Man had stopped believing

when the book was published an introduction was added saying that the contents weren't

and the universe were never looked at the same way again. It only took a few smart

that didn't make sense because God wouldn't waste that much space.

These ideas changed the world forever. "The Great Interuption," as Daniel

1609 he pointed a telescope into the sky. He saw four things which made the traditional

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