It was during the 16th and 17th centuries when man's view of the unvierse and himself

changed drastically. This came after a millenium of repetition and stagnation in the

development of science. People finally began questioning what they were told, and they

went out to find proof rather than assuming on the basis of authority and common sense.

These advances in astronomy and medicine came about in the same era, and were not

unparallel in their development. In both fields were some very notable people who

contributed greatly to the devolopment in these areas. In the field of astronomy

Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo shed Aristotle's, Plato's, and Ptolemy's views of

the universe. In medicine Paraclesus, Vesalius, and Harvey did away with Galen's

Ancient Greeks believed that the Earth was stationary, they concluded this by

making some basic obsevations. One being that the Earth cannot be part of the 'heavens'

because celestial bodies are bright points of light, whereas the Earth is a nonluminous

sphere of mud and rock. Also in the heavens there is very little change, the same stars are

there night after night, only five pla

correct this by the use of epicycles. This said that not only do planets orbit the Earth, but

It was Andreas Vesalius who first went against Galen anatomy. He wrote De

Nicolaus Copernicus believed in the heliocentric model of the universe. It was his

people, who willing to speak out, to change the world

Motions of the Heart and Blood, which disproved the classic belief of the 'pneuma'

meant the world couldn't be moving around the sun because they should shift when

the same flaws as Copernicus' model, but it didn't go against the church. When Tycho

argued against the work of Galen and against the church. He, like Copernicus, went

all this evidence there was no way that the Earth could be moving.

craters which proved that the Earth wasn't the only thing that decayed. The moons of

1609 he pointed a telescope into the sky. He saw four things which made the traditional

It was Galileo Galilei who came up with the 'proof' for a heliocentric universe. In

immposible. The geocentric view had finally been disproven.

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