Bellwrite: What is science? What is unique about a scientific approach to learning the truth? What are other ways of learning the truth?
We will be using the homework from the weekend (Renaissance & Reformation Topic 7) tomorrow during Written Portfolio. Please hold on to these assignments until then.
We took a break from the Protestant Reformation to consider another cultural development associated with the Renaissance: the Scientific Revolution. We considered first the Copernican revolution, the shift from an earth-centered model of the universe to a sun-centered model. Then we studied the contributions of Galileo. We discussed how the ideas of Galileo were considered an attack on the Catholic Church. Next we considered the rise of the scientific method, focusing on the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon to developing an inductive (rather than deductive) method of learning truth. We began exploring his writings on the idols of the mind with various examples.
Homework:
Finish reading and annotating Renaissance & Reformation Topic 5: The Scientific Method Emerges. Answer all the questions.
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