... loaned him money. This led to a lot of corruption. The king and its aristocracy could no longer control the growing nation states. During this time and Italian named Machiavelli wrote a book saying that people should not rule according to preconceived things such as divine right. The new attitude towards politics was that every human was born reasonable. Since all humans are ... them. The monks realized that the calendar used was off quite a bit and for them to disprove it they would be saying that Ptolemy and Aristotle were wrong. However, since the Roman Catholic Church supported Ptol...

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... can be held to begin in the year 1543 when there was brought to Copernicus, perhaps on his deathbed, the first printed copy of the book he had finished about a dozen years earlier. The thesis of this book is that the earth moves around the sun. When did Copernicus go out and record this fact with his camera? What appearance in nature ... on how he was able to get his hypothesis of the rotation of the planets. However, Copernicus was able to conclude his theory by looking at the previous scientist of Aristotle and how he was wrong with his theory, therefore Copernicus made his own based ...

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... to prove this was true. He found out that Jupiter had four moons and that the sun had dark spots. When he figured this out, that was when he made a book and then people started to find out about it. The church's policy was where nothing was ever taken into consideration. People had discovered new things but the old beliefs are ... that helped him. This was where each swing of the pendulum took exactly the same amount of time instead of it slowing down as it approached its resting place(by Aristotle). Also the Telescope was introduced to Galileo and he created one, which made him look cl...

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... and all those who worked by using their hands, were considered to be inferior to others. Science was called philosophy. Sir Isaac Newton wrote one of the most famous science book "The Mathematical science of natural philosophy" which means physics. After 6th century B.C., science took a step backwards. In 4th century B.C. scientific ways were losing touch with reality. Plato came up with ... the idea that in our mind we have perfect forms of things we see around us. When we see a thing we match it with the perfect form in our mind. Aristotle: came up with the idea that earth is round an...

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