Isaac Bacon, And Rene Descartes: The Theory Of Geocentrism

I feel that Galileo's argument is a valid one because it explains relations in nature and the physical world through mathematical analysis. This allows him to define a world outside of human existence that can be logically calculated and explained. His view describes the world in which living creatures live and not contrasts it to the world within living creatures. The problem with Galileo's view is that it pioneers a scientific outlook but never actually fulfills it. Newton believes the world is ultimately made up of hard particles that can retain different properties.

Many scientists use math that can be accurate but uncertain, and this can further prevent them from reaching 'complete certainty.' Relations between areas of knowledge in broad make it hard to state whether 'complete certainty' is even remotely possible in natural sciences and in mathematics. “As the physicist Richard Feynman once said: 'Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves. '” It is this very quote into why the natural sciences and mathematics have had a great success into finding 'complete certainties.' That limit on their extent however, can only become less and less as we advance in technologies and realize where we can improve on our errors and fallacies.

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation shows how God designed the universe according to mathematical principles. Finally, Isaac Newton’s Theory of Universal Gravitation shows how God designed the universe according to mathematical principles. What fully distinguishes science during the Scientific Revolution from the natural philosophy that dominated the preceding eras was the integration of mathematics into science. After centuries of relegating themselves to mere observation of nature, mathematics offered scientists an invaluable tool. Through the synthesis of mathematics, science gained its most distinguishing fea... ... middle of paper ... ...ence on the framework of the universe.

Astronomers therefore stated that, "The earth is at the centre of the universe. The sun, the moon and the stars all move around the earth." Nicholas Copernicus, (1473-1543) a Polish monk and astronomer trained in medicine, law and mathematics, believed that the sun, not the earth, was at the centre of the universe. He believed this to be true because mathematics fit in nowhere with the explanation of how our world came to be. He formulated mathematical calculations that provided the basis for a new view on the world.

Brahe allowed Kepler to see no more than a division of his capacious records. Brahe appointed Kepler the job of understanding the orbit of the planet Mars, which was predominantly difficult. Ironically, it was specifically the Martian data that permitted Kepler to devise the correct laws of planetary motion. Kepler was obliged eventually into the comprehension that the orbits of the planets were not the circles claimed by Aristotle and assumed indirec... ... middle of paper ... ...inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Johannes_Kepler.htm "Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion." Astronomy 161: The Solar System.

Later, Newton took to answer. Kepler also came transversely the paths of planets; their path was elliptical, not circular. Planets move in ellipses with the sun at one focus and Prior to this in 1602, Kepler found from trying to figure out the position of the Earth in its orbit that as it sweeps out an area defined by the Sun and the orbital path of the Earth that the radius vector labels equal areas in equal times. This idea turn around to be very popular in the Scientific Revolution, as it stimulated much inquiring. Kepler created the three laws of planetary motion.

3) This method is constructive much like all fiction is, but this construction is for the purpose of experimental investigation of the physical world to the extent that anything in the world has objects like those in the fictional world of a particular algebra. 4) This is why algebraic techniques are successful even when the assumptions of the system are false: they may still be applicable to some things considered from some perspective. 5) The success of mathematical physics is also due to Descartes' discovery of a remarkable truth: we live in space and time which can be described as a whole. 6) Therefore, what distinguishes modern science from earlier and later philosophy is not a general method of science, but the fact that it happened to find a truth, and a particular way of studying reality which bore fruit. In the sixteenth century, physics was a part of the general subject known as philosophy.

He refutes the by saying, “For the Bible is not chained in every expression to conditions as strict as those which govern all physical effects; nor is God any less excellently revealed in Nature's actions than in the sacred statements of the Bible.”(ch16,4) With a full understanding of the universe and its nature Galileo had the mind of a Genius or at least a scientific revolution thinker. He pushed the bounds of nature as perceived by the church and instated his own discoveries and new findings. His critics rebuked him as being somewhat radical but Galileo knew that his enlightened thinking was the way—the correct way—that the solar system was Heliocentric. None of this would change because Galileo had proved once and for all that the universe, created by God, was meant to be that way.

The ancients needed a model with which to justify the constantly changing positions of the moon and planets. Instead of being based on subjective observations, a hypothesis should be the sole product of a scientist's imagination. Popper calls this "an irrational element" or a "creative intuition" (Williams, 1989). Sir Isaac Newton is an excellent exam... ... middle of paper ... ... scientific community learns from the experience and knowledge becomes a cumulative project. Popper does a great service to the scientific community by stating and refining the obvious way science has worked for centuries.

Voltaire in a sense created the idea that Newton's principles were a new philosophy and acknowledged the possibility for errors. Through mathematical problems and solutions Voltaire shatters the paradigm of any faithful observer to Descartes philosophy and calls his way of thinking "Chaos" (Pp. 8). What amazed me was their ability to calculate things they were never able to do before, like the speed of light, proving it takes just eight minutes for a ray or rays of light from the Sun to reach Earth. Through Newton's achievements in calculus and his use of geometry Voltaire showed how we could estimate the distance between the Earth and the stars and planets.