This document contains a variety of questions and information about the Scientific Revolution in the 1600s including: 1) It discusses Descartes' view that the only thing we can prove is our own existence. 2) It provides information about the geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system and names key figures like Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler who advanced the heliocentric theory. 3) It discusses the Catholic Church's condemnation in 1616 of the ideas that the sun is the center of the world and that the earth moves, based on their view that these ideas contradicted scripture.

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

2. What do you think of nerds?

3. Sun in the Bible
• Joshua 10 (Verse 13):
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the
people had avenged themselves upon their
enemies. So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven,
and hasted not to go down about a whole day. [King
James]
• Isaiah 40 (Verse 22):
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and
the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: [King James]

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

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

6. Galileo - Jupiter

7. Johannes Kepler 1571-1630
exploration?

8. ????

9. 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."

10. Today
What are they looking for?