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The rise of modern scienze: Copernicus , Kepler, Galileo.
This period was characterized by important discoveries in the sciences:
-Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)
-Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
-Galileo Galilei -1642)
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer. Who discovered that the earth and the other planets orbited around the sun and that the earth spun on its own axis. His theory was opposite to that of Ptolemy according to which the earth was the fixed centre of the universe around which the other planets and sheers revolved in concentric circles. It was published in his "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" in 1543.
Kepler was a German astronomer who rected Copernicus theory. He demonstrated that the planets did not move in circles, as Copernicus believed but in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus. This was the fush of Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. According of the second law Kepler: the velocity of the orbiting planets waried in relation to how far they were from the sun.
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer who discovered the importuned of acceleration. Only movement in a shoright lie was "natural". Galileo shouted that every lady, if left alone, warred continue to wore in a straight lui . A change of speed or director was prorated by an outside force acting 545b11f on the body. Galileo was publicly fried in 1633. The consequence of these discoveres was the rinozioul of the centre from its position of geometrical pre-eminence. The universe was longer considered as a fixed order but as a dipianst system.
Kepler and Galileo corrected the theory by Copernicus.
Life of Galileo.
Galileo is perhaps the first real modern scientist. As the first astronomer to use a telescope, he was able to observe the movements of the planets. He understood that the planets and star were not fixed to crystal spheres as the medieval astronomers had believed from their readings of Aristotle, but were free floating bodies. In 1600 , the philosopher Giordano Bruno had been burnt alive at the stake for saying that God did not exist in physical space but only in the soul. When Galileo himself was brought before the inquisition , he publicly renounced his findings, although he managed to get his great work, the Discorsi out of Italy and into the hands of scientist in northern Europe, among whom was Isaac Newton . Bertolt Brecht "life of Galileo" is interesting in the way that it considers Galileo's life and situation as a missed opportunity.
The English Renaissance.
The Renaissance developed in northern
The spirit of Renaissance curiosity.
The Renaissance is considered the beginning of the modern age. It rediscovered the
past , particular the ideals and civilations
of ancient
The Centrality of man.
A cultural movement called Humanism , rinsed in this period. Man was considered the centre of the universe and the centre of artistic , cultural and moral enquiry.
From Tudor to Stuats.
The Tudor.
HenryVII -1509) was the first Tudor King. He
defeated Richard III last of the house of Yourk, at the
Battle of Bosworth in 1485. During his reign,
Henry VIII (1509-1547).
When Henry VII died , his son Henry VIII came to the throne. His accession was considered the beginning of a new Golden Age.
Henry married six times , in the end he had jus one legitimate son and two daughters. They becam , king Edward VI( 1547-53) , queen Mary I (1553-8) and queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603).
The reformation.
The reformation took place in the first half of the 16th
century. It was led by Martin Luther, who in attaching his 95 theses to the
door of his church in
Henry VIII wanted to divorce the first of his unfornate six wives , Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of the king
of
This brought Henry into conflict with the Catholic
Church and Pope Clement VII who excommunicated him. When he failed to obtain a divorce , Henry .ended the rule of the Catholic church in
The age of religious persecution.
Edward VI succeeded his father at the age of ten but
he prematurely died in
Persecutions of roman catholic reaction against Protestantism when his sister Mary succeeded him.
Mary I was known as "bloody Mary" because of her persecution of
Protestants in the attempt to restore the Catholic religion of her mother,
Catherine of Aragon. In 1554 she married the Catholic sovereign Philip II of
The reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
In 1558
THE myth of
Mary poets of her court attempted to flatte her such as Edmund Spenser did in his epic poem " the faerie Queen".
The battle for naval supremacy.
During the 16th century
The years after
His reign was characterized b y the growth of the Empire. The first newspapers and the first authorised version of the bible appeared in 1611.
James I belived in the divine right of kings that's to say the kings were descended from gods and had absolute power as god's representatives on earth. In 1605 some Catholic extremist made an attempt on James I and on Parlaments. They attempted to blow life up Parlament using gunpowder. This conspirations was known as the gunpowder plot. James nevertheless James I survived.
LITERATURE DURING THE RENAISSANCE.
During the renaissance writers and poets felt and explored
the winds of chaos and uncertainty that signalled the transition to the modern
age. In English literature the theatre particularly the works of Shakespeare,
Marlowe, Webster and Jonson best expressed these new challenges. The poetry of the early Renaissanc was highly influenced by the sonnets od Petrarch and like that of the medieval period it tended
towards idealisation. In
The influence of Plato.
Literature was influenced by the ideas of the greek philosopher Plato whereas Aristotle was the dominant figure in medieval philosophy.
Plato believed that our knowledge of the world came not through the senses but through a type of reminiscence or memory of what he called ideas everything that existed in nature corresponded to its idea OF WHICH IT WAS AN INFERIOR BUT FAITHFUL COPY.
Plato described our sensory experience of the world as being similar to that of people trapped in a cave who can n only see the shadows of things and not the things themselves in their essence. According to Plato say the philosopher is he who goes outside and sees things in direct sunlight. The sun is important for Plato singer it represents the source of truth. True essence of false appearance. According to Plato we must be able to judge true essence from false appearance.
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