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The Scientific Revolution
1. Paradigm: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, that define a world view.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
2. Copernicus (1473-1543): a Polish clergy man wanted to observe the skies to prove the majesty of a divine creator.
3. Heliocentric model: Earth and planets revolved around a fixed sun at the center of the solar system.
Earth is not fixed but turns on its axis
He didn’t publish until the year he died 1543 because he thought it would threaten the church
4. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
-believed that mathematics could explain the mystery of the universe.
-he determined that a planets speed depended on its distance from the sun.
5. Galileo Galilee (1564-1642) Father of Astronomy: one the first scientists to use the telescope and made great advances in the field.
-He published his findings in 1610 but was condemned by the church.
“The findings were foolish and absurd and formally heretical”
-1632 he tried again and published his belief that the earth rotated around the sun and celestial bodies were not perfect.
6. Papal Inquisition in 1633 - charged with heresy and imprisoned for his ideas.
-he renounced his beliefs but he inspired others to study.
7. Rene Descartes: (1596 -1650) promoted the use of experimental evidence.
-derive conclusions from logical evidence not public opinion
8. Scientific Method: a set of steps to determine a theory’s validity.
9. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) He excelled at mathematics, developed calculus and used mathematic formulas to define the laws of motion.
10. Law of Universal attraction: states that all objects attract each other with a force that is directly dependent upon the mass of both objects and the distance between them.
