Scientific+Revolution

Jason Gao

“Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night God said ‘Let Newton be,’ and all was light.” The couplet above was Alexander Pope’s way of expressing the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity. What was the effect of seventeenth-century science on Christianity, and how did each react to the other?

The Scientific Revolution, originally denounced by religion, was better tolerated as time went on; science, on the other hand, sought merely to clarify the ideals of religion, coming up with radical reasons for ideal reform.

Generalization on science Effect of seventeenth-century science on Christianity Science's reaction to Christianity Christianity's reaction to science
 * Copernicus
 * Heliocentric system
 * Brahe
 * Kepler
 * 3 laws of planetary motion
 * Ellipse
 * Area sweep
 * Proportion
 * Galileo
 * Starry Messenger
 * Dialogues
 * Newton
 * Principia
 * Calculus
 * Galen
 * Paracelsus
 * Vesalius
 * Harvey
 * Cavendish
 * Merian
 * Winkelmann
 * Decartes
 * Discourse on Method
 * I think, therefore I am
 * Bacon
 * Scientific Method
 * Advancement of Learning
 * Novum Organum
 * New Atlantis
 * Spinoza
 * Ethics
 * Pantheism
 * Pascal
 * Pensees
 * Fontelle / Science societies
 * French Academy of Sciences
 * Royal Society of London
 * Enlightenment happened afterwards
 * John Locke
 * Eventually Newtonian word-machine accepted
 * Hardened policies
 * Inquisition attacked scientists
 * Industrial Revolution
 * Copernicus had read in Plutarch that Philolaus, etc. had believed that the Earth moved, not the sun
 * Hampered by the Inquisition
 * Work moved to the north (England, France, Dutch Netherlands)
 * Copernicus: Catholic church does not denounce
 * Heliocentric system
 * Against geocentric system
 * Galileo: Catholic church condemned Copernicanism
 * Ordered Galileo to reject Copernican thesis
 * Galileo allowed to continue discussing Copernicanism as long as it was maintained that it was just a mathematical supposition
 * Inquisition finds him guilty of teaching condemned Copernican system after "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican"
 * Giordano Bruno executed by papal Inquisition for stating plurality of worlds
 * Resisted Newton's ideas until eighteenth century
 * Index of Forbidden Books

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(this serves as my third set of citations)