Copernicus

When I read about Copernicus' hypothesis on why the earth was round and why it was not the center of the earth it caught me by surpise. Today we have the technology to go into space, and also during OUR lifetime we've known that the world is round and that that we go around the sun. It blows my mind that Copernicus was able to come up these educated guess' on his own, without the ability to go into space of have satellites take pictures to prove he was right. Although he died before his book was published, he defnitley would have looked insane for even thinking what he had written about, when he was actually correct. I can't imagine how much research and testing was involved for him to get the points he wanted to proved his hypothesis valid.

The Petition of Right

Reading the Petition of Right, makes me realized how much of tyranny we've read about throught history from anyone who was in position to have power over the people. From the start of this class to now and even some history we haven't disucussed in class we see that power turns into greed. The Petition of Right reminds of the Bill of Rights. Both of these documents try to give the free people the right and power to govern the quality of their own lives without the interference or fear of the government or king. The Petition of Rights could have the set the ground work for the free people, to think for themselves and relieve themselves of persecution and migrate to the country we live in today, which in sense uses the same blue print out government that Parliment used for their King.