AMERICAN LANGUAGE HUB_Level2_Student'sBook_Answerkey.pdf
H114 Meeting 2: Why Do Things Fall?
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