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Transcript of The Scientific Revolution By: Amanda Smith and Linnea Calzada- Charma.
The Scientific
Revolution
By: Amanda Smith and Linnea Calzada-Charma
Intro to the Scientific Revolution
• Part of The Enlightenment • Changed the way people
though and approached science and technology
• Was not rapid • Complex movement with
brilliant people but only theories and experiments
• Poland, Italy, Bohemia, France, and Great Britain
Nicolaus Copernicus • Lived from 1473-1543
• Polish astronomer • Developed advances in
mathematics and methods of calculation
• Published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Sphere
• Created the Heliocentric solar system
• Was not accepted by the Church
• Aristotle and Ptolemy created Geocentric system and was adopted as Church doctrine
The Ptolemaic
System• Almagest (150 C.E.) – explanation of the Earth in the heavens with mathematical astronomy
• Aristotle worked with physical cosmology
• Ptolemy worked mathematics
• Together created theory of Geocentricism (Earth = center of the universe)
• Geocentricism = more religious belief because they assumed that heavenly matter made planets orbit
Tycho Brahe • Lived from (1546-1601)• Made no major
contributions to science• Laid groundwork for
Kepler’s discoveries• Believed in Geocentricism• Created scientific
instruments to observe planets with the naked eye
Johannes Kepler • German astronomer
• Student/assistant of Brahe
• When Brahe died, Kepler inherited his scientific instruments
• Supported Heliocentric system
• Mathematical findings supported elliptical orbits
Three Laws of Planetary Motion
• Kepler used Brahe’s data to write Three Laws of Planetary Motion
• Elliptical vs. circular• Kepler published The New Astronomy (1609) • After Kepler’s book, questions arose about
how planets stayed in orbit
Galileo Galilei
• Lived from 1564-1642• Italian mathematician
and philosopher• First to use a telescope• created the concept of
the universe with mathematics
• Mathematics regularity
Isaac Newton
• 1642-1727 he established a base for physics
• 1687 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• Physical objects moved in mutual attraction (gravity)
• Proved gravity mathematically