During the enlightenment we saw great advancements in the scientific realm. Throughout this time frame there was an increase in the belief that science is an important tool that through reason we can use to conquer ignorance and superstition. Astronomy was perhaps the field that saw the most advancement during the Enlightenment, completely changing how we view the Solar System and our position in the universe. Throughout the novel Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Swift provides many warnings about the mistreatment and abuse of science in the future. Prior to the enlightenment there was much debate about the layout of our Solar System and those who challenged the Geocentric belief were considered to be offending the church and were often punished and forced to recant their beliefs. The geocentric model of the solar system puts the Earth as the fixed star in the center of the Solar System with all surrounding stars and planets orbiting the Earth. Right at the start of the Enlightenment, when Kepler had his work The Tabule Rudolphinae published in Ulm in 1627 that there was an accurate depiction of the Solar System. Kepler fully laid out how the planets orbited the sun in his heliocentric, sun centered, view with elliptical orbits. This was the first accurate depiction that had planets orbiting in an elliptical shape. However, Kepler’s new theory was not quickly adopted as the correct view of the universe by the public or the church. While Kepler avoided much of the wrath of the Church, his contemporary and strongest supporter of his theories, Galileo did not. During the 1620’s Galileo developed several laws of motion, including natural versus forced motion and rest versus uniform motion, to support and calculate his later findings. He then destroyed the idea of a perfect geocentric universe with a small refracting telescope with 5 major discoveries. First he had discovered that the moon and the sun were not perfectly smooth