What are the differences between Platonic and Aristotelian cosmology?
Medieval times are those between the Dark Ages and the Enlightenment. We came out of the Dark Ages because Aquinas (practically speaking) banished Plato from Christianity by incorporating Aristotle into the religion. The problem with Galileo’s defense of Copernicus’ ideas is that it upturned Aristotelian cosmology adopted by the Church. Aristotle based his cosmology on physics, on the things of this earth which could be examined and defined as a basis for existence. http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/No… Plato’s’ was taken from the Pythagoreans. “This mystical concept of number and geometric figure” based his cosmology in things other than physical existence.
