AP European History Scientific Revolution
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European History [1]
Chapter 16: Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution Background to the Scientific Revolution Medieval Science dominated by religious beliefs Renaissance Humanists Contradictions of Aristotle and Galen Renaissance Artists and their impact on scientific study Close observations of nature Perspective and anatomical proportions very inaccurate; used animals to compare with humans Technical Problems not logical and was very spiritually based; inaccurate Mathematics Hermetic Magic the belief that the world is a living embodiment of divinity. Math and magic could solve the world?s problems Alchemy the math and magic Toward a New Heaven: A Revolution in Astronomy Aristotle, Claudius Ptolemy, and Christian theology Geocentric Universe