Lesson 16 & 17 Flashcards
a naval ship that is used for distant voyages and can carry loads of weapons
Caravel
Help’s determine the ship’s latitude from the height of the Pole star or the sun
Astrolabe
Useful in knowing your location and that your ship is going on the right direction
Compass
Shown interest in voyage which is why he supported portugese voyages
Henry the Navigator
Believes that the earth is the center of the SOLAR SYSTEM
Geocentric Model
The earth is composed of FOUR ELEMENTS
Aristotle’s Geocentric Model
all planets orbited the sun, and the sun and moon orbited the earth
Tycho Brahe’s Model of the Cosmos
age of light where bold ideas were exposed to the rational word
Age of Enlightenment
The first to abandon the scholasticism of Aristotle
Rene Descartes
Father of Liberalism
John Locke