Scientists in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Scientists and their ladder 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 normality proved to be powerful and revolutionary. The work of the aforementioned scientists was some(prenominal) positively and negatively bear upon by the social, political, and religious factors of the time. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the church service had slap-up control over scientific discipline, specially ideas that would oppose the teachings of the Bible. Copernicus was ostracized for his heliocentric model, and as a result in a later government issue Copernicus writes to pope Paul III, It is to your worship rather than to anyone else that I harbour chosen to dedicate these studies of tap ( mendelevium 1). Copernicus views the Pope as rattling powerful, therefore Copernicus writes this to gain the Popes support in order for h is work to be more successful. This depicts how the Catholic Church negatively coined these scientists because Copernicus had to pacify the Pope to make trusted he was not attacked. blush 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 demand the possibility of malignant rumors by repeatedly showing your willingness to bow to the authority of those who have jurisdiction over the human intellect, in matters of the interpretation of Scripture. This document shows the true, unfiltered bearing of clergymen towards scientists because unlike the Pope, Giovanni did not lead to seem politically even when writing to Galileo, he could actually speak his mind. Doc 3 also illustrates how religion, on a larger scale, could negatively affect and control the work of scientists. This level of control is depic ted by scientists who still based science on r...