Knowledge as a main cultural factor. Zoom session.

17 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The rising of scientific knowledge

The Scientific Revolution.

The impact of Galileo Galilei 's astronomical descoveries. The gradual acceptance of heliocentrism. 

The new method based on observation and experiments, and mathematical calculation.

Newton's contribution to the new scientific paradigm. The laws of physics.

Francis Bacon's role on the dissemination of the experimental method. Approach to his utopia, New Atlantis.

The relevance of Diderot and D’ Alembert, Encyclopedia in the  collection of all the available information in every field of knowledge.

1.       Please, read on Newton (Anthology, pp. 155-156); Diderot and D’ Alembert, Encyclopedia (pp.154-155, 161);