The Scientific Revolution:
New Views on Science
1. Leonardo:
The Scientific
Method-
which is a logical process for gathering info and testing; independently
developed in Renaissance.
2. Aristotle: Began the Geocentric Theory- Earth is center of universe, Ptolemy restated this theory. Supported by Christian church, taught God
designed universe for humans.
3. Copernicus: Heliocentric Theory- Sun is
at center of universe, not widely accepted.
4. Galileo: Sensible Experiments- cause knowledge of nature and necessary
demonstrations.
Discovered
that light objects fall at the same speed as heavy objects
5.
Galileo: Study of
the Skies – disproved medieval belief of
objects in the heavens, and disproved that heavenly bodies moved around the
earth.
6.
Tycho Brahe: Agreed with Copernicus that planets move around the sun,
but thought the sun circled earth once a yr.
7.
Kepler: Three
Laws of Planets Motion- Planets revolve
around sun, mathematically.
8.
9.
Vesalius: Study of Living
Things- Made
discoveries by dissecting human corpses, father of modern anatomy.
10.
11.
Bacon: Inductive method- conclusion is reached after observation. Believed people could live more comfortable
lives if Scientific Method were followed more often.
12.
Descartes: Deductive
method- conclusion
is reached by logic starting with a theory and deriving facts from the theory.
"Cogito, ergo sum." (I think, therefore I am. René Descartes
1596 - 1650
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
Sir Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every
man is convinced that he is well supplied with it." René Descartes 1596
– 1650
The Scientific Revolution was during
the Reformation and was a time of a lot of questions, thinking and new
discoveries about our earth. It was a
time of Christian breakdown and religious wars that caused Europeans challenge
authority and their beliefs. New views
of the universe were becoming big with the discoveries of the sun being the
center of the earth rather than believing that everything revolved around earth
and humans. The beginning of this
Revolution was in 1543 with Copernicus, who published his famous book on the
Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. He
believed that the planets revolved around the sun and that the moon revolved
around the earth. This caused much
commotion, but soon led to more new views of the world. Other famous names during the Scientific
Revolution were: Kepler, Galileo,