1. PLEASE DO NOW:
Who are you?
What are you?
Are you real?
How do you know?

2. Nicolaus Copernicus
( ) Poland
Published On the Revolution of Celestial Spheres in 1543
Advanced heliocentric universe theory over Ptolemaic geocentric universe theory.

4. Galileo Galilei
( ) Italy
Observed the surface of the sun and moon with a telescope, observed moons revolving around Jupiter, advanced Copernicus’ heliocentric universe theory.

6. Johannes Kepler
( ) Germany
Mathematically proved that the planets move in ellipses around the sun.

7. Isaac Newton
( ) England
Advanced the law of universal gravitation, the idea that everything is attracted to everything else.
Invented Calculus (so did Gottfried Liebnitz)

8. Andreas Vesalius
( ) Belgian
Published On the Fabric of the Human Body, a study of human muscles and the circulatory system.

9. Rene Descartes
( ) French
Philosopher and Mathematician
Published Discourse on Method in 1637.
“I think, therefore I am.”

10. “I was never to accept anything as true that I did not know to be evidently so: that is to day carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to include in my judgments nothing more than what presented itself so clearly and so distinctly to my mind that I might have no occasion to place it in doubt.”
Explain: What do you think the consequences were for Descartes?

11. Francis Bacon
( ) English
Published Novum Organum in 1620, outlining the basics of today’s scientific method.

12. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
( ) Dutch
Invented microscope
Discovered bacteria

13. Robert Boyle
( ) English-Irish
Father of Chemistry – temperature and pressure affect the volume of gas – Boyle’s Law

14. MERCANTILISM: Economic theory stating that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and that in order to receive a larger share, once country has to take some wealth away from another country.
FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE: Situation that exists when a country sells more goods than it buys.
SUBSIDIES: Government grants of money
TARIFF: Import taxes on foreign goods
What are the political effects of Mercantilism?

15. IMPERIALISM!
People want to buy cheap things and sell expensive things.
Gaining overseas empires allows access to raw materials and captive markets.

17. Da Gama

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