Aristotle Vs Galileo

Galilei Galileo, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton each transformed scientific thinking, and their contemporaries understanding of the universe through new theories. The theories themselves are quite extraordinary, yet, the process of getting said theories accepted by the broader scientific and public communities appear to be far more challenging. Today we accept as fact the heliocentric model of the universe, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, and of course the theory of gravity, but this was not always so. Before these great men of science completed their respective theories and laws there existed different, less empirically tested explanations for the natural phenomenon occurring around us. These thinkers not only changed the way scientists

The idea that the world has existed from the beginning of time, and will endure until the end. He also thought that the stars and planets were perfect spheres and thus followed perfect circular orbits. His predecessor and teacher, Plato, was a creationist believing that the earth came into being, and the cosmos’s workings are all dictated by a single omniscient overlord. These ideas may have been influenced by Plato’s belief that government should be run by a single philosopher king, who would determine a place in society for all its citizens from birth. Obviously, these ideas did not stand the test of time but many did, and served as the basis for the exploration and experimentation of the enlightenment scientists. Socrates made an essential contribution with his development of the Socrative method, which is still used throughout the world to educate, and more specifically scientists with inspiring their inquisitive minds to ask questions on not only what they don’t know about the natural world and what is accepted fact. We can thank Aristotle for championing the approach of logical linear thinking to explain the existing world around him, and at the same time setting the foundation stones of the scientific method and epistemology in general. Plato contributed with his theory on planetary motion, that to explain irregular movements or seemingly backwards moving planets, he supposed that their orbits interacted with one another and impacted their motion through space. This idea, although not quantified, would have far reaching effects for future astronomers in explaining planetary motion and gravity’s