Scientists in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Scientists and their represent underwent an exploitation equal to artists of the Renaissance, during the Scientific vicissitude of the 16th and seventeenth centuries. Scientists much(prenominal) as Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Isaac Newton proven to be influential and revolutionary. The work of the aforementioned scientists was both positively and negatively affected by the social, political, and religious factors of the time. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Church had great require everyplace science, especially ideas that would make up the teachings of the Bible. Copernicus was ostracized for his heliocentric model, and as a result in a later publication Copernicus writes to pontiff Paul III, It is to your Holiness kind of than to anyone else that I have elect to dedicate these studies of mine (Doc 1). Copernicus views the pontiff as very powerful, accordingly Copernicus writes this to gain the popes support in allege for his work to be to a greater extent successful. This depicts how the Catholic Church negatively affected these scientists because Copernicus had to appease the Pope to make sure he was not attacked. Even when scientists appeased to the Pope, local clergymen were even more offensive in their attacks on scientists. As seen in Doc 3., Giovanni Ciampoli, an Italian monk, writes angrily to Galileo, It is indispensable, therefore, to remove the adventure of malignant rumors by repeatedly showing your willingness to defer to the part of those who have jurisdiction over the human intellect, in matters of the indication of Scripture. This document shows the true, unfiltered attitude of clergymen towards scientists because impertinent the Pope, Giovanni did not need to come along politically correct when composing to Galileo, he could truly spill the beans his mind. Doc 3 overly illustrates how religion, on a bigger scale, could negatively affect and mold the work of scientists. This level of entertain is de picted by scientists who lull based science on r...