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The Scientific Revolution A New World View

What Was the Scientific Revolution? <ul><li>A revolution in human understanding and knowledge about the physical universe ...

“ Science” Before the SR <ul><li>Based on reasoning </li></ul><ul><li>Experimental method or observation - not used </li><...

Creating a New Worldview <ul><li>Hallmarks of SR </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Questioning of old knowledge & assumptions </li></...

Factors Leading to SR <ul><li>Rise of universities </li></ul><ul><li>Renaissance </li></ul><ul><li>Reformation </li></ul><...

Astronomy & Physics <ul><li>Work with the person next to you and diagram the Universe as we know it today </li></ul><ul><l...

How does your diagram differ?

Astronomy & Physics <ul><li>Prior to SR - Ptolemaic System prevailed </li></ul><ul><li>Geocentric Universe </li></ul><ul><...

Nicolaus Copernicus <ul><li>1473-1543 </li></ul><ul><li>Polish </li></ul><ul><li>Suggested the universe was heliocentric <...

Copernicus’ Heliocentric Universe <ul><ul><li>Sun centered </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Planets revolved around sun </li></u...

Copernican Universe <ul><li>Afraid of the Catholic Church </li></ul><ul><li>Published theory </li></ul><ul><li>on his dea...

Tycho Brahe <ul><li>1546-1601 </li></ul><ul><li>Danish mathematician </li></ul><ul><li>More accurate positioning of planet...

Johannes Kepler <ul><li>1571-1630 </li></ul><ul><li>German mathematician </li></ul><ul><li>Proved Copernican theory via ma...

Galileo Galilei <ul><li>1564-1642 </li></ul><ul><li>Italian mathematician </li></ul><ul><li>Improved telescope </li></ul><...

Science on Trial <ul><li>Catholic Church - not happy </li></ul><ul><li>Arrested by Inquisition </li></ul><ul><li>Tried </l...

Sir Isaac Newton <ul><li>1642-1727 </li></ul><ul><li>British mathematician </li></ul><ul><li>Laws of motion </li></ul>

Universal Law of Gravity <ul><li>Explains why planets continue an elliptical orbit around sun </li></ul><ul><li>Mathematic...

Medicine <ul><li>Better understanding of anatomy & physiology </li></ul><ul><li>Microscope invented </li></ul>

Chemistry <ul><li>Robert Boyle </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Boyle’s Law (properties of gasses) </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Antoine Lav...

Rationalism <ul><li>Reason, not tradition, is the source of all knowledge </li></ul><ul><li>René Descartes (1596-1650) </l...

Empiricism <ul><li>The belief that experience is the only true source of knowledge </li></ul><ul><li>Huge shift toward emp...

Scientific Method <ul><li>Francis Bacon (1561-1627) </li></ul><ul><li>English philosopher & empiricist </li></ul><ul><li>S...

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