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Title: Scientific Revolution


1
Scientific Revolution
  • Mr. Langreck

2
Changing Views of Universe
  • Europe's views of universe shaped by
  • Ptolemy
  • Aristotle
  • Earth was center of Universe
  • Inquisition would question anybody who challenged
    this idea

3
Copernicus
  • Polish Scientist
  • On Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
  • Heliocentric universe
  • Sun at center
  • Ideas were rejected

4
Johannes Kepler
  • Did math to prove that sun was center of universe
  • Proved that planets did not move in perfect
    circles
  • Planets moved in ellipse

5
Galileo
  • Made improvements to telescope
  • Four moons of Jupiter
  • Named after de Medici
  • Looking for financial support
  • Sun center of universe
  • Starry Messenger
  • House Arrest

6
Other Discoveries of Galileo
  • Thermometer
  • Speed of falling objects
  • Pendulum experiments

7
New Scientific Methods Develop
  • Francis Bacon
  • Experimentation and Observation
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Rene Descartes
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • Human reasoning
  • Cogito, ergo sum
  • I think therefore I am

8
Scientific Method
  • State the problem
  • Gather Information
  • Hypothesis
  • Experiment
  • Collect Data
  • Draw Conclusion
  • Share Data

9
Isaac Newton
  • Calculus
  • Math used to prove his theories
  • Gravity
  • Three Laws of Motion
  • An object in motion stays in motion
  • An object at rest stays at rest
  • For every action there is an equal and opposite
    reaction

10
Medical Changes
  • Most medical knowledge based off Galen
  • Many errors
  • Artists began study of human body
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • grave robbing
  • Drawings of Human Body
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek
  • Microscope
  • Bacteria
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