Scientific Revolution Flashcards

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What did Copernican of the 16th century believe?

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He was a mathematician that challenged and changed the geocentric model to heliocentric.

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How did the church react to Copernicus and how did that affect Copernicus?

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The church called it illogical, unbiblical and un-Christian. This causes Copernicus to hold back his findings until he tells the truth on his deathbed

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Who was Galileo?

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Proves Copernican theory with a documentation of the rotation of the stars with a telescope and writes in Latin to reach to a bigger audience.

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How did the church react affect Galileo?

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The church summoned him to Rome to precisely measure the religious holidays, making it ironic that he found that the heliocentric theory was true. He faced inquisition and forced to recant his theories. Index of Forbidden Books has his writings

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Inquisition

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Persecution of non-believers

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The scientific method

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Uses observation, hypothesis, and experimentation

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Tycho Brahe

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Built Europe’s most modern astronomical laboratory to get her data (tycho- psycho for building such a huge lab)

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Francis Bacon

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Inductive logic, creation of scientific method (bacon-everyone eats it like everyone uses the sci met)

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Johannes Kepler

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Discovered that planets revolved around sun in elliptical orbits (Joe’s Hands Kept Lip from bits)

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Rene Descartes

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Deductive method, whatever could be doubted must be rejected “ I think, therefore I am” (Descartes-discards)

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Isaac Newton

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Law of Gravitation, Calculus,

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Zachariah’s Jansen

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Invented the first microscope ( Zac uses scope)

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Evangelista Torricelli

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Developed the first Mercury barometer (

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What happened pre-revolution?

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The church was still the main authority, geocentric universe, Renaissance and reformation views, challenges of theories by scientist

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