11/2 The Scientific Revolution

• The scientific revolution is the beginning of the modern world
• Differences between the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
• Renaissance looked back to the classics
• Scientific revolution looked forward
• Science before 1500 was based in theology, took greek philosophy and christianized it
• People start to question the scientific teachings
• The different reactions between what the protestants and catholics originally say
• At first Protestants were against it because they are fundamentalists
• This shifted to catholics against it because they opposed heliocentric view
• Why did the Protestants become pro-science?
• they did not have a Pope as an authoritative power over them
• The scientific method is very important
• Bacon and Descartes changes things from speculation to an empirical formula
• Before empiricism people just thought about things and didn’t have any logic behind it

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  Descartes 

• Inductive reasoning- from specific to general
• Inductive and empiricism are together
• Add more knowledge to see more parts and an answer
• Deductive reasoning- from general to specific
• Look at the parts of the concept and try to deduct to see the final parts
• As we get to the enlightenment people take these ways of thinking and apply it to society not just things in nature
• Pascal's Wager- created this wager to say it’s unlikely there's a God but it's beneficial to believe in him
• The punishments of not believing in him can be worse than actually believing in him