The Scientific Revolution

1550 - 1700

By:

Ben Lapidus

And

Clay Krebs

What is the Scientific

Revolution?

• An era of scientific inquiry and discovery in Europe

• Scientists questioned accepted beliefs

• Included philosophers and writers

Famous

PeopleNicholas Copernicus Galileo Galilei

Andreas Vesalius Sir Isaac Newton

Copernicus

• First scientist of the Scientific Revolution

• Theorized that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun

• Few knew about his theory while he was alive

Andreas Vesalius

• Physician and anatomist

• Carefully observed human body after dissections

• Wrote one of the most famous books on human anatomy – De Humanis Corporis (The Human Body)

Galileo Galilei

• Proved Copernicus’s theory; big problems for him afterwards from Catholic Church

• Built the most powerful telescope of the time

• First to see the rings on Saturn, Jupiter’s moons, and the craters on our moon

Sir Isaac Newton

• One of the most important scientists of all time

• Known for the story of the ‘apple that fell on his head’ –led to his work on the nature of gravity

• ‘To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction’ is one of the three Laws of Motion that he wrote

InventionsMicroscope

1600 CE

Barometer

1600 CE

Telescope

1609 CE

Thermometer

1600 CE

Where this all happened

Bibliography

• Cordova, Jacqueline. Across the Centuries. 21.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Comp., 1999.

• Bower, Bert. History Alive. Student. Palo Alto, CA:

Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005.