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The Scientific RevolutionAP European HistoryCapital High School
The Old School:Ancient Science
The ancient scientists arenatural philosophers...
Aristotle
4th Century BCE Greece
Theory of Falling Objects
Foundation of ancient and medieval science
Ptolemy
2nd Century Greece
Almagest
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The Old School:Medieval Science
What develops as science?
Alchemy
Witchcraft
Astrology
St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274 - Italy
Summa Theologica
Causes of theScientific Revolution
The Medieval University system
The Renaissance
The Age of Discovery
Evolution of Scientific Methodology
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The Major Question: What is the nature of the
universe?
Geocentricvs.
Heliocentric
Nicholas Copernicus
1473-1543 - Poland
Concerning the REvolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Pope Paul III
“...the book nobody read”
Tycho Brahe
1546-1601 - the Netherlands
The Dream
Johannes Kepler
157101630 - Germany
Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motion
Galileo Galilei
1564-1642 - Tuscan Region of Italy
Revisiting The Theory of Falling Objects
Starry Messenger
Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems
Introducing to the world... Simplico!
The Trial of Galileo
Pope Urban VIII
Sir Isaac Newton
1642-1727 - England
“Lucasian Professor” at Cambridge University
Principia
Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
The Law of Inertia
Fundamental Law of Dynamics
Law of Reciprocal Actions
Major Question: What is the best way to study
science?
Empiricism
Francis Bacon
1561-1626 - England
Inductive reasoning
Inductive Reasoningvs.
Deductive Reasoning
Rene Descartes
1596-1650 - France
Discourse on Method
“I think, therefore I am...”
Scientific Method
Major Question:How should we best treat
human sickness?
Galen
2nd Century - Greece
Studied Hippocrates
Four bodily humours
Medicine and the Catholic Church
Monastic movement = healers
Andreas Vesalius
1514-1564 - Belgium
On the Fabric of the Human Body!
William Harvey
1578-1657 - England
An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals