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This 3 page paper argues that among all the advances of the 1600s, it was the steps made in science that laid the foundations of the modern world. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and developed extensive trade routes. This paper argues however that more than any of these, it was the development of new scientific theories, and the new ways of thinking that
accompanied them, that were instrumental in changing the world. Discussion For centuries, science had been governed by the theories put forth millennia earlier by Aristotle and modified by Ptolemy. The
earliest astronomers are to be commended because they were trying to find sensible explanations for natural processes, but without the advantages provided by advanced instruments. They looked at the night
sky and saw strange things, and then developed theories to explain these occurrences. Often the explanations were fanciful: the ancient Greeks, for instance, believed that lightning was Zeus, the King
of the Gods, hurling thunderbolts in anger and that Apollo, the Sun God, pulled the sun across the sky in his chariot. These myths, though considered quaint and even somewhat
silly today, are still an attempt by people to explain the natural world. They had no way of knowing the true explanation, so they reasoned out what might be causing
events. These explanations stood for centuries, until better techniques came along to explain natural events. That is precisely what happened to the Aristotelian cosmology in the 1600s. It seemed quite
logical to Aristotle that the sun revolves around the earth, because that is what seems to happen: its dark, then it gets light as the sun rises and moves across
the sky. Finally the sun sets, bringing night again. To the naked eye, and to an untrained observer, it seems that the sun circles the earth. But in the 1600s,
astronomers had better instruments and a greater understanding of mathematics, and were able to pose a startling new theory: the earth revolves around the sun (Kishlansky, Geary and OBrien).
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