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Title: Scientific Revolution


1
Scientific Revolution
  • Chapter 13
  • Section 5

2
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

4
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

8
Astrolabe
9
Caravel
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