Vocabulary
What exactly was Scientific Revolution?
A major shift in thinking in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world.
Flying Shuttle
- Allowed single weaver to weave wider fabrics
- Development created imbalance - spinners thread production couldn't meet pace of weaver
Novum Organum is published
In 1620, Bacon attempts to create organization and cooperation within the scientific community by demonstrating how the diverse fields of science relate to one another
Galileo Galilei
Improved the telescope, proved Copernicus's heliocentric theory, challenged Greco-Roman medical authority, brought forth the experimental method, threatened by the Church and recanted his works
Mechanism
Theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes
What was the Age of Enlightenment?
Philosophers and scholars sought insights into the underlying beliefs regarding economics, government, education, law, religion
- Revolutionized industrialization
- Created unlimited source of inanimate power
- Used coal and served many uses
Invention of The Barometer
Torricelli's invention measures air pressure, demonstrating that air does indeed have weight, and that the pressure caused by that weight differs in different situations
Sir Isaac Newton
Wrote the Principia on universal gravitation; universe was unified in one majestic system
Heliocentric
Having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system
Definition of salon?
An informal meeting place where ideas are exchanged
Telescope
Galileo invented a version of this that allowed him to view the stars and Jupiter's moons
Peace of Westphalia
May 16th, 1648
Thomas Paine
Wrote Age of Reason; advocated deism; progress: improve society through natural laws; need concrete evidence for beliefs
Having Earth at the center
What were natural rights?
Rights that belong to people simply because they are human beings
Barometer
Galileo mentored physicist Evangelista Torricelli, who designed a device to measure air pressure
The Glorious Revolution
January 1st, 1688
Francis Bacon
Inductive method; need empirical experimental research; father of empiricism -- collect and then compare
Empiricism
Theory that all knowledge is gained from the experiences of the senses
What was capital punishment?
Putting someone to death (the death penalty)
Light Spectrum
Isaac Newton split white light into colored light
Death of Charles VI
October 20th, 1740
Bernard de Fontenelle
Sought to make science "witty" and "entertaining"; wrote/made Scientific Revolution accessible to many people; Conversations on the Plurality of World; wrote Eulogies of Scientists - science vs. religion
Deism
Belief that God does not intervene with the universe