1. Knowledge Connections
Vocabulary 
Geocentric
Heliocentric
Term
Definition
Knowledge Connections
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2. What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?
Essential Question
What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?

3. How did people used to see the world?
During the Middle Ages, scholars based their knowledge of science of two sources:
The writing of Ancient Greece and Rome
The teachings of the Catholic Church

4. Did they think the Earth was flat?
Before the Scientific Revolution…
SOME people may have believed the world was flat
MANY people believed the Earth was the center of the universe

5. Scholars began to gather knowledge in new ways:
How did their understandings change?
As early as the 1500s, thinkers began to break with traditional ways of thinking
Scholars began to gather knowledge in new ways:
Observation
Experimentation
Mathematics
A major change
Their findings would soon trigger a REVOLUTION

6. What else did they believe in?
Earth centered
the GEOCENTRIC universe
This was not an easy idea to challenge...
People had believed in the idea for over 1400 years!

7. Who came up with that idea?
Created the theory of a geocentric universe
Was an Egyptian born astronomer
Lived during the time of the Roman Empire
PTOLEMY

8. The Church taught that God created the earth and people
What did the Church think about that?
Ptolemy’s theory fit with the teachings of the Catholic Church
The Church taught that God created the earth and people
Thus, it made sense that God made the moon, stars, and planets revolved around the place of God’s people

9. When did these ideas change?
It was in the 1500s when scientific knowledge increased
Explorers were now able to chart the size and shape of the Earth
Scholars were translating the writings of Arab scientists
Scientists were studying the motions of stars and planets

10. Scientists who studying the motions of stars and planets
What was the result of these changes?
Scientists who studying the motions of stars and planets
ASTRONOMERS invented better tools for looking at the universe
The time was right for a revolution that would change the world as it was known

11. What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?
Essential Question
What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?

12. Scientific Revolution