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Scientific Revolution

Scientific Revolution. Scientists Challenge Old Assumptions. Question Everything!!!. Questioning artistic methods and experimenting with new ones = Renaissance Questioning religion = Reformation Questioning accepted ideas about the Earth and the universe = Scientific Revolution.

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Scientific Revolution

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  1. Scientific Revolution Scientists Challenge Old Assumptions

  2. Question Everything!!! • Questioning artistic methods and experimenting with new ones = Renaissance • Questioning religion = Reformation • Questioning accepted ideas about the Earth and the universe = Scientific Revolution

  3. Geocentric Theory Aristotle and Ptolemy – earth is unmoving object at center of universe; planets and sun move around us Church teaches that God deliberately placed earth at the center

  4. Copernicus • Studied movement of heavens for 30 years • Heliocentric Theory • The Sun is the center of the universe, not the earth! • 1st published new idea about the universe in 2,000 yrs.

  5. Results of Copernicus’s breakthrough… • Rethink old theories – stimulates Scientific Revolution • Catholic Church is angry – heliocentric theory challenges idea that human beings are most special to God

  6. Kepler’s Law • 3 laws of planetary motion prove Copernicus’s heliocentric theory • Scientific Method – begin with question based on observed phenomena; hypothesis; gather and test data

  7. Galileo Analyzed Natural World • Law of the Pendulum • Objects fall at the same speed • Built a telescope in Venice – studied stars and planets • Starry Messenger – described his observations of planets and moons

  8. Catholic Church Reacts • Banned Copernicus’s ideas • Jesuits claim that Galileo’s ideas threaten to do more harm than Calvin and Luther put together • Pope summons Galileo to stand trial – under threat of torture he swore he had been wrong and was placed under house arrest until he died

  9. Harvey • 1628, showed that the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood throughout the body

  10. New Tools for Science • Microscope – 1590, invented by Zacharias Janssen • Thermometer – Galileo made one with alcohol in1603; Gabriel Farenheit created one with mercury • Barometer – Galileo’s student, Torricelli, developed mercury barometer for measuring atmospheric pressure and predicting weather

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