HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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They rejected the contribution of astronomers during the Scientific Revolution
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They settled the debate between heliocentrism and geocentrism.
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They devised laws of motion and energy to build new technologies.
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They identified weather patterns that determined when to plant crops
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Detailed explanation-1: -Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Giusto Sustermans, 1636 Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) improved the telescope, with which he made several important astronomical discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and made detailed observations of sunspots.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Geocentrism” refers to a cosmological and planetary theory, in which the Earth occupies the central position of the world system. In antiquity and in the Middle Ages, geocentrism was the most common cosmological view, although some astronomers and philosophical schools embraced alternative visions about worldly order.
Detailed explanation-3: -The geocentric model was proposed by Ptolemy. The universe is formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy developed mathematically. The Ptolemaic system is a geocentric system such that all are started by assuming that Earth is in a stationary state and it is the center of the whole universe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Italian scientist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for teaching, among other heretical ideas, Copernicus’ heliocentric view of the Universe. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus detailed his radical theory of the Universe in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun.