HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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new concepts about the universe
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new concepts about religion
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new trade routes and commodities
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new books written in local vernacular
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Detailed explanation-1: -Johannes Kepler enunciated his laws of planetary motion in 1618. Galileo determined the laws of gravity and explored the laws of motion on earth. Newton first conclusively affirmed the laws of motion and linked them with Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
Detailed explanation-2: -1 Answer. They correctly asserted the sun was at the center of the universe, not the earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although he retained the Aristotelian idea of uniform circular motion, Copernicus suggested that Earth is a planet and that the planets all circle about the Sun, dethroning Earth from its position at the center of the universe. Galileo was the father of both modern experimental physics and telescopic astronomy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Galileo was an astronomer and scientist during the Italian renaissance period. He pioneered the scientific revolution that flowered in the work of Isaac Newton. Galileo’s main contributions to astronomy were: The use of the telescope in observations (he did not invent the telescope)