The old physics of Aristotle and the astronomy of Ptolemy were countered by Copernicus. ... Claudius Ptolemy devised models of the universe that were in correlation to Aristotelian natural philosophy. ... Ptolemy used a number of devices to solve many of the discrepancies in Aristotle's astronomy while still staying true to Aristotle's natural philosophy. ... Most of his discoveries and claims went directly against Aristotelian philosophy. ... These men's discoveries countered and sometimes collaborated with the natural philosophy of Aristotle and the astronomer Ptolemy. ...

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The major ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, populated their worldview based on subjective insights, but falling short of progressive scientific demands. ... According to historical records, there was a renewed interest in Platonic and Pythagorean philosophy during approximately 200BC. Both philosophies are characterized with the belief of a perfect system and see mathematics as the way to such an ideal. ...

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Natural philosophy, being the precursor to modern day science, was greatly developed in ancient Greece. ... Another celebrated Greek in the field of natural philosophy was Pythagoras. ... Another extremely notable philosopher was Aristotle. ... Aristotle would study many things such as animals. ... Compared to other societies in this ancient time, the Greeks were the frontrunners in natural philosophy....

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Modernism also disregards that which is supernatural as it is not possible for it to be proven by science (Thompson, 1998).Caputo and Descartes greatly influenced this shift through the philosophies that they introduced. ... Aristotle was the first to devise a plausible theory of the universe. ... He did this through combining his cosmology and astronomy with Aristotle's physics. ... However, In the Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Descartes introduced the idea of the Cartesian dualism which is made up of the res extensa which is the material world including the body and res cogi...

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I confirm this view not only by refuting Ptolemy's and Aristotle's arguments, but also by producing many for the other side, especially some pertaining to physical effects whose causes perhaps cannot be determined in any other way, and other astronomical discoveries; these discoveries clearly confute the Ptolemaic system, and they agree admirably with this other position and confirm it." ... After all, Galileo was claiming the apotheosis of philosophy, Aristotle, was wrong. ...

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Great minds like Socrates, Plato, Paley, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes have made arguments for the existence of God. We must realize that individuals like King James are in fact men, not Gods and the Bible is, in actuality, only a book and was also intended to be taken as a philosophy, a way of life; not literally! ...

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Aristotle's Prime Mover appears radically different from the God of most Christians. ... The Cosmological argument is not just a Christian argument, Plato and Aristotle postulated the need for a craftsman and a cause of all things. ... The answer may be beyond our science and demonstrates the point at which philosophy takes over. ...

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Beneath the genius innovations that encircled society laid the unmatched philosophy produced from the glorious mind of John Locke. ... Previously, the church held the unchallenged beliefs of Aristotle and Ptolemy as fact. ...

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People who have studied the sciences have ranged from Aristotle in Ancient Greece to Steven Hawking today. ... Although they were far ahead of their time, the Greeks still only had primitive instruments to measure where the stars and planets were, and based many of their theories on theology and other philosophy instead of quantifiable data. ...

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