when [[Fall of the church caused capitalism]], math shattered peoples knowledge - we revolve around the sun galileo emphasis on math geometry is now used to represent abstract representation, not related to world (triangle angles between things) becaue of this, he believes nothing moves on purpose. youre alone in purpose matter goes from potential to inert and resisting you everything is an illusion formed by our subjective - if its not measured with math its not objective descartes invents graphing, which then turns any shape into an equation. formulas can now express reality this gives us purely symbolic interaction meaning crisis to a lack of certainty, goes from perspectival solution to mathematical primary characteristics are measured with math secondary characteristics are measured through our internal