... interest in Copernican theory. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs, which put forth his revolutionary idea that the Sun was at the center of the universe, opposing the popularly accepted understanding of the geocentric universe embodied by the natural philosophy of Aristotle, the astronomy of Ptolemy and the teachings of the Church that the stationary Earth had ... forming what he called "a symptomatic case that permits us to see how deep the self-doubt of the modern age, of science and technology goes today." Some of these views were those of the ph...

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... is to establish a branch of science, completely not factored by the Holy Scriptures. As the church essentially ran Europe, this opposing declaration is easily deemed as challenging both the church and God, which in turn is your nation. The narrow-minded views of many monarchies and the church in that time period had no ear for altering their universal assumptions. Roadblocks and ... ...

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... monk Martin Luther posted up the "Ninety-five Theses against the Roman Catholic Church of All Saints in Wittenberg" inviting debate and discussion amongst scholars. It contained a series of grievances opposing the Holy Roman Catholic Empire's way of catholic life, in which Luther was determined to reform. He attacked several more aspects of established Roman Catholicism including indulgences: which Luther condemned ... marriage invalid" This was something Luther would readily argued against - for it wasn't within the teachings of the Bible but merely a sinful act of temptation. Many who...

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