Part 39 (2/2)

205 Copernicus: How he arrived at the theory he set forth

206 Brewster: Galileo's Discovery of the Satellites of Jupiter

207 Inquisition: The Abjuration of Galileo

208 Bacon: On Scientific Progress

209 Macaulay: The Importance of Bacon's Work

QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS

1 How do you explain the attitude of the ancients toward scientific inquiry?

2 State the ancient purpose in pursuing scientific studies

3 Contrast Bacon and Plato as to ai of Copernicus as to the motions of the heavenly bodies was an excellent exa

5 Show that the discovery and reasoning of Galileo was an exa of to-day

6 Were the difficulties that surrounded scientific inquiry and progress, as described by Bacon, easily rey have so comht upset preconceived theological ideas

SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES

Ball, W R R _History of Mathee_

Libby, Walter _An Introduction to the History of Science_

Ornstein, Martha _Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century_

Routledge, Robert _A Popular History of Science_

Sedgwick, W T and Tyler, H W _A Short History of Science_

White, A D _History of the Warfare of Science with Theology_, 2 vols Wordsworth Christopher _Scholae Acadehteenth Century_

CHAPTER XVII

THE NEW SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS

THE RISE OF REALISM IN EDUCATION As will be remembered from our study of the educational results of the Revival of Learning (chapter XI), the new schools established in the reaction against medievalism, to teach pure Latin and Greek, in time became formal and lifeless (p 283), and their ai aand in speech This idea, first clearly inaugurated by Stur (R 137), had now becos of the Jesuit Caainst this extre the sixteenth century, and as a further expression of the new critical spirit awakened by the Revival of Learning, a demand for a type of education which would make truth rather than beauty, and the realities of the life of the time rather than the beauties of a life of Roman days, the aim and purpose of education This new spirit became known as Realism, was contemporaneous with the rise of scientific inquiry, and was an expression of a si of the time As applied to education this new spirit es, as follows:

1 Humanistic realism

2 Social realism

3 Sense realism

We will explain each of these, briefly, in order