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Scientific Revolution Flashcards

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Scientific revolution

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Medieval view of the world being mostly religious

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Scientific revolution causes

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  • medieval universities
  • the Renaissance (rediscovered ancient mathematics)
  • Navigational problems on sea voyages in the age of overseas expansion created a need for scientific advances
  • Scientific methodology (system of methods)
  • It became the cause of new world views
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Geocentric

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earth is in the center

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Heliocentric

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Sun is in the center

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Galileo

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claimed all elements of the universe are composed of the same matter
-his telescope proved the Copernican system

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Bacon

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formalized Inductive reasoning: empiricism

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