1. Unit 1I Enlightenment: Scientific Revolution
EQ: How did The Scientific Revolution Change the way we think about the world and People

2. Scientific Revolution: Vocabulary
Theory: explanation for how or why things happen
Geocentric: Theory that the solar system revolves around the earth
Scientific Revolution: Period from 1500s-1700s in which science changed people’s traditional beliefs
Ellipses: Oval shaped orbits of the planets
Gravity: The attraction that mass (planets) have on an object near its surface
Elements: Basic materials that cannot be broken down into simpler parts
Rationalism: The belief that reason and experience must be present for the solution of problems
Reason: the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements (using logic)
Scientific Method: steps for an orderly search of knowledge
Observe, Hypothesize, Predict, Test, Modify
Generation: group of individuals born and living at the same time

4. Ptolemy

5. Ancient Greek Scientist
Geocentric Theory: Earth centered universe

6. Nicolaus Copernicus

7. Polish Astronomer
Heliocentric Theory = Sun Centered Universe
Faced Excommunication

8. Johannes Kepler

9. Planets Travel in ellipses not circles as originally thought

10. Galileo Galilei

11. Conducted experiments to achieve new knowledge
Objects fall at same speed (Gravity)
Designed own telescope to support Copernicus’ theory
Discovered mountains on the moon
Charged with Heresy by the Church

12. Isaac Newton

13. English mathematician
Law of gravitation – gravity holds the solar system together
Influenced enlightenment political thinkers to use evidence, reason, logic, and questioning to order government

14. Andreas Vesalius

15. Flemish doctor who dissected dead human bodies
Discoveries directly challenged Galen’s ideas about the human body

16. Robert Hooke

17. Created the microscope and discovered cells (plant)

18. Anotonie van Leeuwenhoek

19. Improved the microscope (Hooke)
Discovered bacteria in the process

20. Robert Boyle

21. Discovered elements, material that can’t be broken down into simpler parts
Leads to the periodic table of the elements

22. Rene Descartes

23. Mathematics is the source of truth “I think, therefore I am”
Rationalism – Reason is the main source of knowledge

24. Blaise Pascal

25. At 19 invented a calculating machine
Believed solutions to moral problems and spiritual truth comes from church,
Believed reason and science could solve many practical problems.

26. Francis Bacon

27. Invented Scientific Method
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