Points about Second Essay

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Points about Second Essay

• Generally well done and better supported arguments

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Some Points

• Most of you took Hookers position but defended
  it pretty well

but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a
series of changes in the structure of European
thought itself systematic doubt, empirical and
sensory verification, the abstraction of human
knowledge into separate sciences, and the view
that the world functions like a machine
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The Reformation

• Few mentioned this directly
• Reformation (protestant movement) helped pave the
  way for new religious views but more importantly
  created a new atmosphere (although this
  atmosphere was highly variable in Europe) for the
  tolerance of New Ideas.
• Science thrives best in that environment.

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Main problems

• Still too many declarative sentences with out any
  supporting evidence
• Lack of defined terms Copernicus tackled the
  problem of precession (okay, WTF is precession?)
• Still too much off topic wandering ? re-read your
  draft and check for this
• Copernicus and Easter connection is unclear
• Descartes section done fairly well but without
  much real reflective thinking on the
  implications of his methodology

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Profound Insights

• In the Scientific Revolution, empiricism is more
  important than rationalism
• The scientific conclusions drawn during the
  scientific revolution of the Renaissance all
  centered on keeping God as the main force of the
  Universe