WHO
Who are the main historical figures who impacted the Scientific Revolution?
Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei
What was a period of drastic change in scientific thought?
The Scientific Revolution
This is the theory that truth can be known and problems solved only by the use of human reason and experience.
What is Rationalism?
What does the root word "helio" mean?
It means the sun.
What happened during the conflict with the Catholic Church?
Church officials were afraid that the people would begin to believe scientific ideas.
Who was the guy that suggested the sun be in the middle of the solar system instead of the earth?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Where did the Scientific Revolution take place?
Europe
The theory that truth can only come through reason, experience and experiment.
What is empiricism?
What does the root word "geo" mean?
It means the earth.
What were the Catholic Church people afraid of?
Afraid that the people would start questioning the Church.
Who was the guy that constructed a telescope to help observe the rotation of the planets?
Galileo Galilei
What major event happened before the Scientific Revolution?
The Renaissance
Method of reasoning where one begins with principles and, by asking questions, draws conclusions from the principles.
What is deduction?
This is the science that studies and measures the motion of bodies in space.
What is Physics?
What did the people of the Church think about these ideas?
They thought that these ideas would make people doubt the Churches faith.
English scientist, who discovered how blood moves throughout the body?
Sir William Harvey
How did the Renaissance contribute to the Scientific Revolution?
During the Renaissance, studies like geography, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and physics,, which all helped with the developments in the Scientific Revolution. Developments like the telescope and geometry.
This method of reasoning begins with a hypothesis and then performs experiments to prove it.
What is induction?
When did the Scientific Revolution change the Scientific thought?
16th and 17th centuries
What happened to the Catholic Church during the conflict?
The church was weakened.
Who invented Calculus and developed the Three Laws Of Motion?
Isaac Newton
What was the reason Isaac Newton was so important during the scientific revolution?
He discovered gravity, he developed the three basic laws of motion, and he also invented calculus.
The belief that mankind's goal is to attain the good things of this earth.
What is humanism?
Removed religion from equation, and science became based in fact and quantitative reasoning.
Where did the Catholic Church have the strongest holding, also where the scientific revolution begin?
Western Europe