question archive 1)Reading 9: In his letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of 1615, Galileo Galilei explains why some scholars were critical of his ideas
1)Reading 9: In his letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of 1615, Galileo Galilei explains why some scholars were critical of his ideas
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1)Reading 9: In his letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of 1615, Galileo Galilei explains why some scholars were critical of his ideas. Why were they critical? What arguments did they use against him?
2)Reading 9: In turn, why does he think it is dangerous to apply passages of Scripture to science? What, then, should be the proper relationship between religion and science?
3)Reading 31: In a memorandum about "Finances" to King Louis XIV of France, Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert writes that there is "only a fixed quantity of money circulating in all of Europe." How did this happen, according to him, and what should be done about it? How can France get a bigger piece of the economic pie?
4)Reading 31: How would you define the word "mercantilism," and how is Colbert's memorandum an example of mercantilism in action?
