Renaissance+Science

The image above is a painting created around the 1600s of Galileo at his trial for heresy. Galileo was a famous astronomer and physicist who were questioned by the church on charges of Heresy. These charges came from his support of the Copernicus Theory of the earth revolving around the sun. Galileo also published a book called The Starry Messenger which, like the Copernicus Theory, directly contradicted the belief of the church.
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Galileo was interrogated while he was old and ill. On day he finally gave up and repented his idea and made a plea bargain with the church. Galileo was sentenced to house arrest and died at his house.

The legendary astronomer Galileo at his trial for heresy. 1640s. //Beyond Books//. Web. 30 Apr. 2010. . ||  The image above was a 1993 postage stamp of Sir Isaac Newton. Newton lived during the Renaissance where one of the revolutions happening was the scientific revolution. His contributions were some of the most important of his time. His Binomial Theorem, influenced by the Greek mathematician Euclid, was developed before he graduated from college.

Newton's most famous scientific discovery was his equations explaining the force keeping everything in orbit, called gravity. The equation was used to calculate the orbits of the planets, space debris, and even all of the objects in space. It also helped prove the Copernicus theory that the sun was the center of the universe and all of the planets including earth revolved around it. It was theories like this that started to spread new ideas about the universe. These ideas challenged both the church and previous ideas about people's place in the universe.

The scientific revolution was brought about because of the events such as the revival of learning, which caused people to question ideas proposed before, and the invention of the printing press which caused ideas to be spread faster and helped people build on the ideas of others.

German Stamp Depicts Newton Standing Before Some of His Most Important Scientific Contributions. 1993. //Beyond Books//. Web. 5 May 2010. . || The Copernicus system was a revolution in the scientific world because it was based on observation and mathematics claiming that it would make much more sense if the sun was in the center of the solar system instead of the earth and the earth revolved around the sun. This was because there were events in space that could not be explained by the earth being the center of the universe. This also became a more accurate model when Isaac Newton proposed his theory of gravity and that larger objects re vole smaller ones. This theory directly contradicted the ideas of the church that said that the sun, planets, and stars revolved around the earth and that the earth was the center of the universe. Anyone accused of agreeing with this theory, like Galileo Galilee, would be accused of heresy.

Copernican system. 1660. //ABC-CLIO: World History//. Web. 18 May 2010. . ||