Galileo Galilei

What Drives History?

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Copernican Revolution

Galileo Galilei

Life of Galileo

Martin Luther

Whatt?Drives?History??? ? ? "History?is?the?Essence?of?Innumerable?Biographies"??Thomas?Carlyle?? What?drives?history??Before?we?answer?this?question,?we?must?go?deeper?and?answer?a?more?important? question:?What?is?history??History?is,?simply,?all?of?the?events,?ideas,?people,?and?occurrences?that?have? existed?in?the?past.?These?things?have?been?driven?by?one?common?factor:?individuals.?Although?individuals? driving?history?may?seem?like?a?rather?simple?answer,?it?is?the?only?one?that?provides?no?flaws.?? ? One?such?individual?who?has?driven?history?is??Martin?Luther?.?Luther,?a?German?monk,?was?an?inspirational? figure?who?struggled?to?encourage?people?to?think?more?for?themselves.?Martin?Luther?had?an?

The New Science of the Seventeenth Century

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Heliocentrism

Galileo Galilei

Scientific revolution

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Copernican heliocentrism

The World

Astronomia nova

Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP European History 12 May 2015 Chapter 6 Outline Science of 17th Scienceentailed 3 things: knowledge, inquiry, practitioners/institutions that support work Scientific revolutionof 17thinvolved these 3 Scientific revolution saw emergence of heliocentric view of planetary system, displaced earth from center of universe Brought new math physics that described view Scientific revolution est. method of inquiry for understanding world: emphasized observation, experiment, hypotheses;Scienceemerged as branch of knowledge; ppl. Referred to study of matter, motion, optics, circulation of blood as natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, medicine, science Growth of societies/institutions dedicated to research was central to changes

Traditions and Encounters Chapter 24 Test Bank

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CHAPTER 24 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Luther?s initial stimulus for formulating the Ninety-Five Theses was a. his excommunication from the Roman Catholic church. b. the sale of indulgences. * c. his time spent in England during the English Reformation. d. the turmoil caused by having two popes during the Great Schism. e. the influence of John Calvin. (p. 631) 2. The author of the Ninety-Five Theses was a. John Calvin. b. Erasmus. c. Voltaire. d. Martin Luther. * e. Henry VIII. (p. 631) 3. The Catholic church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the sixteenth century because of the a. need to match the resurgence of the Byzantine empire. b. threat posed by Islam. c. need for Henry VIII to pay off the national debt.