Scientists in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Scientists and their trim underwent an evolution equal to artists of the Renaissance, during the scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scientists such as Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Isaac northward proved to be authoritative and revolutionary. The work of the aforementioned scientists was both positively and negatively stirred by the social, political, and religious factors of the time. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the church building had colossal control over erudition, specially ideas that would oppose the teachings of the Bible. Copernicus was ostracized for his heliocentric model, and as a result in a later effect Copernicus writes to pope Paul III, It is to your holiness rather than to anyone else that I nurture chosen to dedicate these studies of tap ( doctor 1). Copernicus views the Pope as very(prenominal) powerful, therefore Copernicus writes this to gain the Popes support in order for his work to be more successfu l. This depicts how the Catholic Church negatively takeed these scientists because Copernicus had to quell the Pope to make sealed he was not attacked. counterbalance when scientists appeased to the Pope, local clergymen were even more aggressive in their attacks on scientists. As seen in Doc 3., Giovanni Ciampoli, an Italian monk, writes angrily to Galileo, It is indispensable, therefore, to absent the possibility of malignant rumors by repeatedly showing your willingness to get across to the authority of those who have legal power over the human intellect, in matters of the interpretation of Scripture. This document shows the true, unfiltered placement of clergymen towards scientists because unlike the Pope, Giovanni did not carry to seem politically improve when writing to Galileo, he could really speak his mind. Doc 3 also illustrates how religion, on a larger scale, could negatively affect and control the work of scientists. This take aim of control is depicted by sci entists who still based science on r...