Galileo,+Descartes+and+Newton

Hanna Lee Analyze how Galileo, Descartes and Newton altered traditional interpretations of nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge.

Galileo Descartes Newton
 * //Starry Messanger// defending heliocentric theory
 * Stood in trial in the inqusition for defending Copernicous
 * Disproved Aristolenian principle of motion with the principle of inertia and laws of motion
 * //Discourse//: mathematical proof on motion
 * Caretsian Dualism: separation of mind and matter "I think, therefore I am"
 * Human mind and God are same as they both think, but don't have physical things to prove it
 * In //Discourse//, rejection of the senses
 * His books were placed on Index of Forbidden Books
 * People them started to indentify themselves with mind and reason than their whole selves.
 * Scientists interpret matter as inactive
 * Studied composition of light
 * Worked on universal law of gravitation
 * In Principia, elaborated on three laws of motion
 * Invented Calculus
 * First law said objects are always resting or in the same motion until is is disturbed by another object
 * Second law said rate in change of motion os proportional to force acting on it
 * Third law said that each action had an equal and opposite reaction
 * This is reason why planets travel in eclipses
 * Said that one mathimatical universal law explained all motion

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