1. Scientific Revolution

2. Medieval Views earth center of universe, called geocentric idea
Idea came from Aristotle
Ptolemy expanded view 2nd century
Earth special place in center

3. New Ideas
Muslim ideas
Compiled a storehouse of ancient and current scientific knowledge
Universities added astronomy, physics, and mathematics courses.
Renaissance studied Greeks  found that the ancient authorities often did not agree with each other.
Age of exploration brought scientific research

4. New Theories Heliocentric – Copernicus…planets revolve around sun
Church did not support idea
1601, Mathematician Johannes Kepler proved Copernicus ideas were true

5. Galileo Discovered that all objects fall at the same rate.
Law of the pendulum
Astronomical telescope
Church condemned him…contradicted their ideas
Stood trial in 1633 and had to state that the earth stood motionless

6. Scientific Method Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas
Francis Bacon – observation and experimentation
Renee Descartes – emphasized reasoning, “I think therefore I am”
Doubt everything

7. Isaac Newton Identified gravity
Three laws
All motion in nature can be measured and described mathematically