Scientific Revolution Flashcards
greatest astronomer of Antiquity
Ptolemy
It is when rotation spheres makes bodies rotate (moon-mercury-venus-sun) with the 10th sphere that moves itself and gives motion to other spheres.
Ptolemaic system
Polish astronomer who said the universe was heliocentric
Nicolas Copernicus
Who wrote “on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres”
Copernicus
German who said orbits were elliptical
Johannes Kepler
The first european to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope
Galileo Galilei
Mountain on earth’s moon, four moons around jupiter, sun spots and heavenly bodies are material substance were discovered by?
Galileo Galilei
This book was under suspicion of the church and was written by Galileo G
The starry messenger
This books contains the laws of motion and universal law of gravitation
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy/ Principia
Who dissected animals therefore creating the human anatomy? (greek)
Galen
Who dissected human bodies in U of Padua and described organs and their gen structure?
Andreas Vesalius
What did William Harvey discover
Heart was the beginning of blood circulation
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Made the pascal’s law which describes how LIQUID behaves when exerted pressure
Who was Antoine Lavosoisier?
Founder of modern chemistry and a system for naming chemical compounds
Who wrote Observations Upon Experimental philosohy (humans through science are masters of nature)
Margaret Cavendish
Self-taught astronomer who was an assistant to her husband and helped in the discovery of a comet. Was rejected in berlin acad
Maria Winkelmann
Father of Modern Rationalism
Rene Descartes
Separation of mind and matter (matter is inert)
descartes
What did Rene Descartes write?
Discourse on Method
It is a Systemic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
Scientific Method
Inductive reasoning
Proceeding from the particular to general or domination of nature
Sequence of Sci Meth
Observe a natural event-hypothesis-experiment-analyze result and decide if results support hypo if yes publish if not start from experiment until results support the hypo
Main view of The universe according to Ptolemy
Geocentric
Explain Boyle’s law
Volume of gas is dependent on pressure exerted on it)
