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you re watching news coming up next doc film the renaissance factor part two they ll be more at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. europe i ll be going to. put what s become of it. what will it look like tomorrow. evening for a better future isn t enough. requires work which is sufficient. you know actions twenty nineteen may twenty sixth on g.w. . the renaissance was when people started keeping track of time. locksmith peterhead life invented the pocket watch in fifteen ten it soon became a profit tool merchants and a fortune with it. and it is out seafarers to navigate the distant oceans. shortly before christopher columbus had arrived in the americas and the known world triple up inside. people began to understand our planets in new ways and an empire rose on which the sun never sets. this was all thanks to the new portable timepieces scholars could measure and calculate the paths of the heavenly bodies more accurately discovering the mechanisms of planetary motion ....
Was wrong and that scared copernicus into keeping quiet and it appears that. martin luther called copernicus a fool and his model was dismissed not so much as heretical but more as fantastical . it was only seventy years after his death that galileo s observations provide a convincing arguments. but the physical proof had to wait for another three hundred years nevertheless nicholas copernicus had provided the s. . a nominal model of our solar system and refuted the ancient scholar ptolemy and that in itself was revolutionary. the earth was ultimately removed from the center of the universe and classified as an ordinary planet that orbited the sun along with others. copernicus saw how the apparent motion of the stars in the night sky was really the result of the earth s ....