The Earth Centered universe

The Scientific Revolution questioned and ultimately challenged conceptions and beliefs about nature and the external world and reality that had established into a rather strict awareness by the late middle ages. Derived from the works of ancient Greeks and Romans and grounded in Christian thought, the medieval worldview had become a formidable one. This was a universe in which the earth was the center of everything, otherwise known as the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian worldview. However, the scientific …

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