scientific revolution

Question 0

geocentric

Answer 0

medieval view, earth is center, perfect circle paths, stars fixed in sky

Question 1

medieval view was all

Answer 1

bible

Question 2

Ptolemaic system

Answer 2

geocentric

Question 3

scientific revolution

Answer 3

new way, willingness to question beliefs after Renaissance, Muslim scholar influenced, astronomy, physics, math, rediscover classical texts, new world (1492) new animals and plants

Question 4

heliocentric universe

Answer 4

sun is center

Question 5

Copernicus

Answer 5

Polish cleric, 25 years of data, moved sun to center, near rotation, yet couldn’t explain why, Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies (post humus)

Question 6

Tycho Brahe

Answer 6

data, 20 years, does nothing with it, has student-Johannes Kepler

Question 7

Johannes Kepler

Answer 7

student of Tycho Brahe, take all data, mathematical laws govern motion of planets, rotations not circular (elliptical [mercury])

Question 8

Galileo Gallile

Answer 8

at 17 he looked at chandeliers and found out stuff about pendulums, falling objects-Pisa, IMPROVES telescope, 610-starry messenger (Jupiter-4 moons-Medici) (sun spots) (uneven surface of moon), conflict with church-warned not to defend Copernicus, writes book-dialogue, inquisition (takes back everything), house arrest, Medici sneaks all studies to Protestant countries, in 1999 church is like oops

Question 9

sir Francis bacon

Answer 9

scientific method, novum organum-test it urself, use experiment, also was an english politician

Question 10

Rene Descartes

Answer 10

analytical geometry (links algebra to geometry), skip experiments - use logic, reason, and math, “I think, therefor I am” (tried to prove god)

Question 11

Isaac Newton

Answer 11

math-Cambridge, burned down step fathers house, laws of motion - bodies at rest remain at rest, bodies in motion like to remain in a straight line, equal and opposite reactions, force = mass x accelleration (f=m•a), UNIVERSAL GRAVITY