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"Before1500, scholars generally decided what was true or false by referring to an ancient Greece of Roman author or to the Bible" (Pearson)
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"Beginning in the mid-1500's,a few scholars published works that challenged the ideas of the ancient thinkers and the church"(Pearson)
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" In the early 1500's, Copernicus became interested in an old Greek idea that the sun stood at the center of the Universe" ( Pearson).
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"After studying planetary movements for more than 25 years, Copernicus reasoned that indeed, the stars, the earth and the other planets revolved around the sun"( Pearson)
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"Copernicus publishes Heliocentric theory"(Pearson
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" Each swing of the pendulum took exactly the same amount of time. Galileo had discovered the law of the pendulum"( Pearson)
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" After making some improvements, Galileo used his telescope to study the heaven"( Pearson)
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" He published a series of newsletters called "Starry Messenger", which described his astonishing observations"( Pearson)
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" The Catholic Church warned Galileo not to defend the ideas of Copernicus"(Pearson)
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"This book presented the ideas of both Copernicus and Ptolemy, but clearly showed that Galileo supported the Copernicus theory"( Pearson).
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Pearson. "The Scientific Revolution." 22..1 (n.d.): 545-50. Online. Web. 19 May 2017. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/enlightenment/15baaa3544b12783?projector=1.