This document contains notes from multiple topics including the Scientific Revolution, Galileo, Johannes Kepler, and passages from the Bible. It discusses Descartes proving only one's own existence, diagrams of the solar system, the geocentric and heliocentric models of the universe, Galileo's use of telescopes, Kepler's discovery of elliptical orbits, and the Catholic Church's condemnation of Galileo's support for heliocentrism. The document appears to be class notes combining religious texts with historical scientific concepts from the 1600s.

1. Bellringer
1. According to Descartes, what is the only thing we
can prove?
2. Draw a diagram of our solar system
(8 or so planets + the sun)

2. What do you think of nerds?

3. Scientific Revolution notes

4. What does this mean?
• Psalms 93:1
The Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is
robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is
established; it shall never be moved.
• Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches
out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them
like a tent to dwell in;

5. Scientific Revolution 1600’s
• Name this model:
• Geocentric
• 2 + ways people
would have believed
this model
• 2 ways to test it

6. Scientific Revolution 1600’s
• Name this theory
• Heliocentric theory
• Copernicus (Poland):
heliocentric theory
• Galileo (Italy): telescopes
• Kepler (Germany): elliptical
orbits

7. Galileo

8. Galileo - Jupiter

9. Johannes Kepler 1571-1630
exploration?

10. ????

11. Catholic Church on Galileo
• A decree of February 19, 1616:
• (1) The sun is the center of the world and wholly immovable from
its place.
• Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared "foolish
and absurd. philosophically and formally heretical inasmuch as it
expressly contradicts the doctrine of the Holy Scripture in many
passages, both in their literal meaning and according to the
general interpretation of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of
theology."
• (2) The earth is not the center of the world, nor immovable, but it
moves as a whole, also with diurnal motion.
• Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared
"deserving of the like censure in philosophy, and as regards
theological truth, to be at least errouneous in faith."

12. Today
What are they looking for?