Galileo And Kepler's Changing Ideas During The Scientific Revolution

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During the period of the Scientific Revolution, many scientist had developed new ideas stemming from previous influencers or personal experiments done by themselves. Their ideas eventually spread throughout Europe and which eventually spread worldwide. They all set out to prove that older ideas were incorrect and that in fact, their ideas were right. The three main scientist during this time was Galileo, Newton and Kepler. Their ideas challenged the traditional interpretations of nature such as a perfect universe containing heavenly spheres and the importance of humans as the center of the universe and challenged the sources of knowledge.
Each of these men thought they varying different pursuits, helped Europe to envision a world that was not necessarily …show more content…
Kepler changed the traditional interpretations of nature by combining and searching though observation data collected from his mentor Tyco
Brahe and using mathematics to develop his three laws on planetary motion. These laws are still used today. The first law explained how each planet moves in an elliptical orbit with sun at its focus. Previously it was thought that the Earth was the center. The second law explained the line connection between the sun and planet. The third law explains the square of a planets orbital period is proportional to its mean distance form the sun cubed (Newtonian). Kepler challenged classical sources of knowledge by coming up with the three laws of motion arguing against previous observations and hypothesis that the Earth was at the center.
In conclusion, all three altered the traditional interpretations of nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge. Each of these men though they were varying pursuits, helped
Europe envision a world that was not necessarily godless, but could operate autonomously under contain natural laws.
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