Outline
I.  Astronomy, astrology and the motivations for scientific inquiry
II.  Copernicus and the heliocentric universe
III.Giordano Bruno and the costs of heretical science
IV.  Galileo and the mechanical universe
V.  Aristotle and the church: embattled allies
VI.  Mechanism, Deism, atheism
VII. Rene Descartes
 

Terms from today's lecture
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Cracow
Ptolemy (127-145)
geocentric
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies (1543)
heliocentric
Clement VII (1478-1534)
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
cabala
numerology
alchemy
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
transubstantiation
Deism
atheism
mechanism
rationalism
Discours de la methode 1637
Meditations of First Philosophy in which is proved the existence of God and the Immortality of the Soul (1641)