tmospheric in nature, he began the modern period of time in some senses. Galileo believed that only one universal knowledge (p.18) existed instead of the two traditional knowledge bases of mathematics and natural history. The Bible provided many of these unquestioned beliefs, the power of God and spiritual agencies in the natural order was freely acknowledged (p. 105). For example, once all the planetary theories were revealed, many still believed that the actual center of the cosmos was hell.(p. 24) supporting the belief that God played a large role in science. It seems that what was known in the modern time period was based on what had been said previously and what could be reasoned from the human senses. An example is Galileo and Orions belt: To the three previously known stars in Orions belt Galileo now added about eighty more(p. 26) with his newly invented telescope. Another example is Antoni van Leewenhoek and Robert Hookes use of the microscope to see and support their theories that all bodies were composed of small globules (p.50). Scientists were trying to go more in depth to everything that was known and ask themselves why something happened or what made up something. The precise nature of the change was that people wanted to know and to discover. They wanted to ask why something happened, and they werent satisfied with the answer because it just does.The question of how all this new information was found arose. This information was found through many ways in the modern world, but in contrast the information that was known in the pre-modern was from very limited sources, including what they themselves had seen or reasoned out. In this earlier time the information that was available was held by higher scholars and then distributed down to the common people. This was one of the only methods known to fully communicate information at the time, but when the modern time period arrived things changed. Books became more avai...
