Scientific Revolution: 1543-1660

-Beginning of modern science

-Scientific method: depends on observation and reason rather than faith

-Creates technologies that build the modern world

-Created Paradigm of our solar system

Revolution in Epistemology/Philosophy

-Universities formed

-Rediscovery of Classical Science

-Copernicus: 1473-1543

Earth revolves around the sun

Book “On The Revolutions”

Sun is the center of the universe (heliocentric)

-Sir Francis Bacon: 1561-1626

Preferred inductive reasoning facts>theory

Invents scientific method

-Rene Descartes: 1595-1650

Deductive logic

Deduced existence of god

Invented Cartesian geometry (xy axis)

“I think therefore I am”

-Tycho Brahe: 1546-1601

Danish royal astrologer

Follower of Ptomelic System

Observed and mapped over 700 stars in a 20 year period

-Johann Kepler: 1571-1630

Brahe’s student for 20 years

Living during 30 years war

Loved the planets and made it his life works to explain the motion of planets

Invented 3 Laws of Planetary Motion

-Galileo

“I recant”

Invented the telescope, pendulum clock, thermometer, water pump and sector

Discovered speed of acceleration for gravity

-Isaac Newton: 1642-1727

The Principia

Tied up loose ends of Kepler and Galileo

3 Laws of Motion

Invented optics, calculus and defined gravity

Rise of “Scientific Community”

-The modern scientific method

-Universe ordered according to Natural Laws

-Laws can be discovered by human reason

-”De-spiratualized” the universe

-Mechanical views of the universe

-Deistic view of god