Science and The Age of the Enlightenment
There were many people involved in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Most of these people were fine scholars. It all started out
with Copernicus and his book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly
Spheres. This book marked the beginning of modern astrology. The current
dispute at times echoes the tensions that existed in the sixteenth century
between believers in the Copernican theory of the universe and the
Ptolemaic established order, which preached that the earth was the center
of the galaxy. His theory was anathema to the church and a threat to the
established way of thinking about the world and the people in it.
Skeptical thinkers, such as Galileo and Kepler, produced treatises that
helped build a case for an alternative way of viewing the solar system. It
was a gradual shift in professional allegiances in educational evaluation.
No promises can be made for the power of a new paradigm offers a new set
of explanations of our educational system. Descartes' contemporary, the
English philosopher Francis Bacon, took a somewhat stronger line
concerning how conclusions should be reached. Bacon rejected deducing
knowledge from self-evident principles and instead argued that only
through observation and repeatable experiments could theories be built.
Bacon thus relied on proofs that could be demonstrated physically, not
through deductive logic. He believed that the pursuit of scientific
knowledge would enrich human life immeasurably. Galileo's lunar
observations extend from 1609 to 1638 when failing eyesight compelled him
to abandon his astronomical research. During these three decades, he
discovered an important contribution to our understanding of three
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