Ch. 14 Flashcards
17th century scientists
Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Bacon… Etc
Galileo and nature
Rational and understood with mathematics
Characteristics of the Scientific Revolution
Few participants
Unorganized
Widespread
Astronomy = main field
Ptolemaic system
Geocentric; Aristotle and Ptolemy
Copernican system
Heliocentric
Tychonic system
Geoheliocentric; Mercury and Venus = sun
Everything else = earth
Traditional view of the universe
Ptolemaic system; Earth = static and center,
Epicycles and deferents
Copernican system
Heliocentric, earth = not the center
Copernicus’ contribution to Scientific Revolution
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Brahe’s contribution
Astronomical data, tychonic system
Kelper’s contribution
The New Astronomy, elliptical orbits
Isaac Newton’s contribution
Universal gravitation
Laws of motion
Empiricism
Principia Mathematica
Galileo literary works
Starry messenger, letters in sunspots
Galileos view of the universe
Heliocentric; Copernican system
Major contribution of Galileo
Modified telescope