Renaissance+Science


 * **The Gutenberg Printing Press** || The Copernicus System || Galileo's Telescope ||
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 * The printing press was one of the biggest things to hit the people during the Renaissance era. This new invention created by Johannes Gutenberg himself, increased the book production rate immensely. Before this invention, church leaders had to copy and hand write things from other scriptures. This was a tiresome and grueling process, and didn’t spread ideas fast. But when the printing press was invented, a mass production of books and writings exploded into the Renaissance society. This helped spread ideas and teach the illiterate a thing or two about life. The Gutenberg press most definitely helped the economy by producing a mass amount of books for people to read. It also helped Johannes Gutenberg become more socially popular and decreased the political and social power of the Church because it gave the people one less thing that they’d have to rely on the Church for. sucjkkkgjbmn,mjvfiu.7lt8hiokjfdighfdxyuikjfgyuhijkmnbvc || The Copernican System was a theory,developed by Nicholas Copernicus, that the universe is “heliocentric”, meaning that the sun is the center of the universe. People in the 16th and 17th century believed that the universe was “geocentric”, meaning that the earth was the center of the universe. So why did everyone make a big deal out of Nicholas Copernicus’ beliefs? Because the Copernican System contradicted what the Bible said; the universe is centered around the earth in a “geocentric” manner. Because of this contradiction, the Church felt that this theory was going against the word of God. Both the Protestant and Catholic denounced the theory as heresy. The Churches felt that if Copernicus and Galileo would promote their theory, the Church would lose less political and social power, making them less able to control everyone. zssaxSQ || QaGalileo was a scientist part of the Scientific Revolution in the Renaissance era. He invented the first telescope. Pathetic compared to our modern day technology, the telescope back then brought on a whole new outlook on things and changed the world forever. Because of this new invention, people were able to look at space with a more accurate eye. Galileo took his invention and made the first real observations of the moon. The telescope helped the economy by giving the public something else to buy and helped Galileo climb in social status for inventing something cool and totally unique. ||
 * -Gutenberg Printing Press. N.d. //ABC-CLIO: World History: The Modern Era//. Web. 31 May 2010. || -//Copernican System//. N.d. //ABC-CLIO: World History: The Modern Era//. Web. 31 May 2010. || -Galileo's Telescope. N.d. //ABC-CLIO: World History: The Modern Era//. Web. 31 May 2010. ||