1. HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION:
1648 TO PRESENT
LECTURE 2:
WHY DO THINGS FALL?

2. Sixteenth-Century Europe
• Discovery of the New World (1492)  challenge to Old World
Cosmology
• Reformation (1517)  challenge to religious and political
authority
• Scientific Revolution (roughly 1540-1700)  challenge to
theology and cosmology

3. Mappamundi, ca. 1485-1500

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGjlT3XHb9A&feature=relate
The Ptolemaic Model

6. After Albrecht Durer. The Peasant and His Wife
at Market (B. 89). after 1519.

7. Didacus Valades, “Great
Chain of Being,” Rhetorica
Christiana (1579)

8. Peter Apian, Cosmographia (1524)