Study On Copernican Revolution

Copernican revolution is historic progress from revolution to revolution and is human's destiny, after which people must face science in their daily life. Copernican has changed people's lifestyle all over the world, creating a new world where modern people live. The secret of modern life is hidden in this great revolution in history, therefore people can find answers of many questions in our modern life, which are not different from the old ones in the old time before Copernican revolution. On one hand, in common opinions, Copernican revolution is a model that science defeated religion. However, after checking the history of Copernican revolution, we can see Copernican revolutionaries had no ideas that science must replace religion. Logically, science and religion are two different sorts of culture styles, and they are not doomed to fight against each other. On the other hand, Copernican revolution is commonly viewed as the improvement that the new science thoughts replace the old ones. We can see the new science and the old science have their each advantages and disadvantages, so that we'd better ask ourselves whether it's undoubtedly good that the new science replaced the old science seriously. The true meanings of the new science after Copernican revolution still need to be studied carefully. By checking the history of Copernican revolution, we can find that Copernicus himself is not a revolutionary in this revolution whose name is Copernican revolution but just a theoretic innovator in the old astronomy system. Copernicus'job was very specialized, and his theoretic goal was to stick up for and improved the old astronomy system. However this old job led a new way to a revolution for scientists following Copernicus. Kepler was a great astronomer who beyond the ways Copernicus adhered to. It's safely to say that the astronomy revolution began when Kepler broke the old celestial sphere. Almost at the same time, the Father of modern science-Galileo led the physics revolution, who joined the experimental means and the mathematics methods in his studies and works. Galileo brought forward the division of such two categories-the primary qualities and the secondary qualities. This thought focused the development of modern philosophy on epistemology. Galileo grounded the foundation of modern science. Kepler's astronomy revolution and Galileo's physics revolution did not affect each other theoretically, the laws in the sky and on the earth still need be unified in the same science theory system. Newton came to the history of human being to do this job. After the publishing of the great work named the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , the classical science system was set up finally. The new science system is mainly a mathematics-experiment science system, and the natural history is not attached importance to by modern people any more. The spirits of natural history that directs people to love the nature was lost after Copernican revolution. The science of nature was independent from then on and replaced the old Greek natural science. At the same time, science was not a way of humanities, so that there was a new question asked that what could be the humanities style in the modern science age. The fact that Science was divided from humanities is a crisis of human being's existence. Husserl pointed the crisis of European science and created a new way-transcendental phenomenology, to solve this crisis. In addition, complexity science may be a new key to solve the problem of modern science and may bring the next Copernican revolution which will change people's life all over the world.