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Scientific Revolution About 1640-1730Kelly Hanlon, Brianna Hughes, Casey Innes, Lauren Lamoureux
“If you would be a real seeker after
truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
- RENE DESCARTES
The Scientific Revolution • Scientific Revolution- a series of changes that
changed the way that scientists viewed the world• Scientific revolution did not affect most of
Europe illiterate and uneducated
• Prepared the way for the modern world• Caused by:
the expansion of trade medieval universities interest in thought, mathematics and science
Main Aspects
•biology•chemistry•astronomy•mathematics•physics•philosophy
•Nicolaus Copernicus Polish scholar who published “On the
Revolutions of the Heavenly Sphere” This proposed that the earth was heliocentric The theory was rejected at first It was not accepted until Tycho Brahe and
Johannes Kepler got information to support his theory
•Galileo Galilei Italian scientist who made an astronomical
telescope Moon was terrestrial and could have plants Planets revolved around Jupiter His observations caused uproar People accused him of lying and he was
threatened to death
•Francis Bacon Called old ways of thought “idols” Knowledge should come from experience not
books Proposed Aristotelean model of induction and
empiricism▫One uses common principles and uses them to explain
the variety of phenomena
• René Descartes Published "A Discourse on Method, Meditations
on First Philosophy" God created the world, everything depends on
Him God was like human mind; both think, no
physical being God does not depend on a creator for His
existence
•Isaac Newton
Mathematic models of the universe were physical descriptions of the universe
The universe operates in a predictable way following the mathematics
Religion did not explain the physical phenomena of the universe
Planets and other objects move according to physical attraction
Based view of universe on concept of inertia- every object remains at rest until moved by another object
Did not deny God- something has to cause the movement of the object
Deism- all phenomena are fundamentally rational and mechanistic and can be explained in non-religious terms
Scientists
Isaac Newton
Rene Descartes
Francis Bacon
Nicolas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Other Important People
• Johannes Kepler created mathematical model that perfectly predicted the
motions of the planets Believed that planets orbited around the sun and
remained in their orbital paths• Antoine Lavoisier
proved that burning is caused by oxidation• Robert Boyle
made distinctions between elements and chemical compounds
many developments in chemistry• Andreas Vesalius
made first detailed study of the human anatomy
Important Inventions of the Scientific Revolution • Barometer
Measures air pressure Invented by Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli Invented in the year 1643
• Thermometer Measures temperature Invented by Galileo Galilei Invented in 1600
• Microscope Used to magnify small specimen to a higher level Invented by Hans and Zacharias Janssen Invented in 1610
• Telescope Used top observe distant objects by using glass lenses Invented by Hans Lippershey Invented in 1608
Impacts • Changed people’s view on the universe• Affected other areas of knowledge• Attempted to make people understand the natural world• Astronomy and mechanics were greatly changed
Also, similar developments in biology, chemistry and other sciences
• Great change in scientific thoughts
Conclusion• Some of their discoveries were not very popular
continued to find the answers to questions for science
• Scientific thought changed during a period of only a century
• Crushed superstitions
Bibliography• http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture10c
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