age of discoveries (1500-1750)
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Age of Discoveries (1500-1750). Mercantilism. Money Credit. Spice Routes. Christopher Columbus. European Voyages. New Continent, Changing Worldview . s alvation history history of progress. Columbian Exchange: Exchange of Plants, Animals & Diseases. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Age of Discoveries(1500-1750)
Mercantilism
• Money
• Credit
Spice Routes
Christopher Columbus
European Voyages
New Continent, Changing Worldview
salvation history
history of progress
Columbian Exchange:Exchange of Plants, Animals &
Diseases
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Age of Exploration Technologies
astrolabe: measures latitude
magnetic needle (compass): measures direction
maps & skilled mapmakers
Scientific Revolution
Changes• medieval scientific philosophy
abandoned in favor of new methods
• the importance of experimentation to the scientific method reaffirmed
• the importance of God to science invalidated
• pursuit of science itself (rather than philosophy) gained validity on its own terms
Abandoning Medievalism• collaboration with
mathematical & astronomical communities
• inadequacy of medieval experimental methods
• access to legacy of European, Greek, and Middle Eastern scientific philosophy
• British Royal Society helped validate science providing an outlet for publication
Scientific Developments Nicolaus Copernicus :
heliocentric theory of cosmology
Galileo Galilei : laws for falling bodies
William Harvey: blood circulates
Johannes Kepler: laws of planetary motion
Antony van Leeuwenhoek: single lens microscopes
Isaac Newton: elliptical orbits of the planets & law of universal gravitation
Particular view of the nature of reality
Science can account for only those aspects of nature that are accessible to scientific methods of observation and explanation
Insistence on exact observation
No explanation of a fact or event in nature has been acceptable unless it has taken into account all of the observed data
Universe a vast machine operating according to mathematical laws
the vast universe came more and more to be seen and felt as a collection of physical bodies moving through space according to immutable mathematical laws
Conceptions of divinity changed
no longer saw the necessity of postulating the presence of a deity to explain the workings of the universe
Conclusion
increasing control of physical forces
master nature for own purposes