Scientific Revolution Flashcards
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Geocentric theory
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Belief that the earth was the center of the universe
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Copernicus
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- Proved that earth rotated around the sun
- formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun in the center rather than the earth
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Brahe
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- Wrote a book about a newly visible star he saw
- built the first telescope used for astronomy in 1609
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Descartes
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Placed emphasis on reason
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Francis bacon
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Developed idea of experimentation
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5 steps to scientific method:
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- identify problem
- form hypothesis
- experiment
- record results
- analyze
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Vesalius
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- famous for his works on anatomy
- published “On the workings of the human body”
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Hooke
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- created the term ‘cell’
- described appearance of plants at a microscopic level
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Robert Boyle
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First chemist to define an element
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Lavoisier
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Developed methods for the precise measurements in the 1700s
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Isaac Newton
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-wrote ‘Principia’ about his law of universal gravitation
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Galileo Galilei
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Wrote that the earth orbited the sun
