1. Scientific Revolution

2. Bellwork
List 2 of Galileo’s scientific discoveries

3. Middle Ages Scientific Thought Religious teachings - Catholic Church
Earth was flat
Geocentric view
Magic
Superstition
Ancient Writings (Galen, Ptolemy, Aristotle)
Barber Surgeon

4. Breakthrough New Technology and different ways to seek knowledge
These scientific discoveries severally weaken the Catholic Church because they stressed using science and reason…could be a threat faith in God
They felt they were the lone source of truth

5. Geocentric View vs. Heliocentric View
Catholic Church
Copernicus

6. Geocentric View
Challenged the churches teachings that the earth was the center of the universe
Copernicus
Heliocentric view – sun is center of the universe; earth revolves around sun.
Fear of punishment from Church – not published until after death
Kepler
Uses math to prove earth revolved around sun moving in ellipses
Protestant – doesn’t fear punishment from Catholic Church
Galileo
Invented telescope; proved Copernicus
Catholic Church - obstacle to spread of ideas
New ideas challenged Church’s traditional teachings and authority
Church refused to accept any alternative to the theory that God created earth as the center of the universe
forced to recant views or face death

7. Trial of Galileo Movie clip
How do you think Galileo felt about science and reason versus the Catholic Church?

8. Fathers of the Enlightenment
Francis Bacon – scientific method
Observation, hypothesis, test, conclusion = Scientific law if holds true
Rene Descartes – truth reached through reason and logic…I think therefore I am

9. Scientific Revolution
Use of Scientific Method-Francis Bacon
Ideas that are unproven should be discarded
Ideas should be tested
Truth comes through investigation
Enlightenment thinkers will also
use these ideas when questioning
human nature and the responsibility
of citizens

10. Newton
Gravity
Calculus
Universe held together by gravity of the sun

11. Harvey Versalius Dissected human body Discovered Anatomy
Blood circulates throughout the body
Pumped by the heart and returned through the veins

12. Hooke, Boyle, and Priestly
Hooke-cell
Boyle-Father of Modern Chemistry
Priestly-carbonation
Lavosier
Antoine-combustion
Marie-translated books

13. Impact of Scientific Revolution
Ideas would challenge church authority
Ideas would challenge traditional beliefs about nature and the universe
Ideas would be based on reason and observation in the future
Led people to question their governments

14. Catholic Church’s Reaction
Resented the challenge to church authority
Banned books
Convicted supporters of heresy