Outline Key Developments in the Scientific Revolution and Explain How They Might Challenge the Medieval Christian World-View

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Outline key developments in the scientific revolution and explain how they might challenge the medieval Christian world-view Many scientists challenged the believed theories in all manner of things. Such as the planets, forces and God, this rocked the mind of a medieval Christian in many ways. The life of a person evolved around the church. You would visit weekly, without exception. Pay your taxes to the church, which was 10% of your income, they called it tithes. And live your entire life to go to heaven. The whole system of split beliefs was not around. You wouldn’t have an array of many different opinions when it came to religion and after life. Everyone believed in God and the idea of sinning resulted in Hell, and following the Ten Commandments resulting in an eternal bliss of being with God in heaven. So which scientist and philosophers wanted to challenge this? The first set of scientist’s were Copernicus and Brahe. These scientists were the first to agree that we were not the centre of the universe. That it was the sun at the centre and everyone moved around it in a helio-centric motion. Now until these revolutionary scientists came along all people thought that the planets moved around the earth, this was called geo centric. The idea that we, Gods creation, were not the centre of the universe challenged Christians beliefs in the way that we weren’t special, at the centre, that we may not be his only creation perhaps. The work of these mathematicians and scientists were beginning to set the tone of Christian discomfort as the universe and our world was becoming more understood. Galileo Galilei gave his support towards Copernicus as well as adding his own findings to the new theory of a helio-centric universe. He realized that our universe was not it all, that we lived in an immeasurable space. Through the use of a telescope he observed sun spots, which

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