Scientific Revolution

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Scientific Revolution

• Chapter 13
• Section 5

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Studying the Universe

• Copernicus On the Revolutions of Heavenly
  Spheres
• propose the heliocentric model of solar system
• Heliocentric sun centered
• Tycho Brahe studied sky for years accumulating
  data
• Johannes Kepler used Brahes data to calculate
  orbits
• also proved the theory of ellipses
• Galileo builds telescope
• Galilean satellites
• Tried and kept in house arrest

3
The Scientific Method

• step-by-step process of experimentation
• Francis Bacon stressed experimentation and
  observation
• Wanted to help people out through science
• Rene Descartes emphasized human reasoning
• I think, therefore I am.
• Both Disagreed with fitting science to the
  church
• Reject Aristotles scientific assumptions
• Hypothesis possible explanation

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Exploration of the human body

• Andreas Versalius- On the Structure of the Human
  Body
• Ambroise Pare developed ointment, new surgical
  techniques, use of artificial limbs, new
  scientific instruments
• William Harvey Circulation of blood and use of
  the heart
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek microscope, sees cells
  and microorganisms

5
Chemistry

• Robert Boyle
• Elements, compounds, atoms

6
Sir Isaac Newton

• used mathematics to explain gravity and orbital
  revolutions
• Links forces of nature to math
• Developed calculus

7
Inventions

• Clocks, Eyeglasses, Lenses, Printing Press,
  Flushing Toilet, Submarine, Wallpaper, Astrolabe,
  Caravel with lateen sails

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Astrolabe
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Caravel