Title: The Renaissance context
1The Renaissance context
2Harrowing of Hell
31,000 A.D. Apocalypse not!
4Mosque at Cordoba, Spain
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6Greeks versus Christians
- The Greeks The Christians
- Naturalism Supernaturalism
- Reason Faith
- Science Dogma
- Self-confidence Helplessness
- Achievement Renunciation
7 8Bourges Cathedral
9Perspective
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11Michelangelo
12MichelangeloBuonarroti(1475-1564)
13- Pope Innocent III (1160-1216) on the human body
- Impure begetting, disgusting means of nutrition
in his mother's womb, baseness of matter out of
which man evolves, hideous stink, secretion of
saliva, urine, and filth.
14Lorenzo dMedici
15Niccolo Machiavelli(1469-1527)
16- Raphael, The School of Athens
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18Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
19Martin Luther
- Luther on Aristotle
- Aristotle is truly a devil, a horrid
calumniator, a wicked sycophant, a prince of
darkness, a beast, a most horrid imposter on
mankind, one in whom there is scarcely any
philosophy, a public and professed liar, a goat,
and his followers are locusts, caterpillars,
frogs, and lice.
20Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man(c.1492)
21Andreas Vesalius(1514-1564)
22Vesalius, base of the brain
23Vesalius, Fabrica(1543)
24William Harvey (1578-1657) Circulation of the
blood announced 1616.
25Ptolemys model of the universe
26Nicolas Copernicusd. 1543
27Heliocentric
28Retrograde motion explained!
29Copernicus,De revolutionibus orbium
celestium(1543)
30Giordano Brunod. 1600
31Tycho Brahe
32Johannes Kepler
33Galileo Galilei(1564-1642)
34Galileo script
35Scholastic methodology and astronomy"There are
seven windows given to animals in the domicile of
the head. From this and many other similarities
in nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which
were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the
number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover
these alleged satellites of Jupiter are
invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can
exercise no influence on the earth, and therefore
would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Besides, from the earliest times, men have
adopted the division of the week into seven days,
and have names them after the seven planets. Now,
if we increase the number of the planets, this
whole and beautiful system falls to the ground."
36Pope Urban VIII (became Pope in1623)
Galileo when older
37Catholic Church, Codex of 1616
- "Propositions to be forbidden
- that the sun is immovable at the center of the
heaven that the earth is not at the center of
the heaven, and is not immovable but moves by a
double motion."
38Religion in Europe, 1600
39Artists rendition of Galileo on trial
40Galileo Galilei died 1642, Italy
Isaac Newton born 1642, England
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43Gutenberg Bible
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