The Scientific Revolution Flashcards
What was the significance of the SR?
Scientific growth that laid foundation for the Enlightenment, Science for science’s sake, not social reform
What was the Medieval Worldview like?
relied on emotion and reason, so the RCC dominated. Loved questioning nature
What contributions did the East make to science before the SR?
Muslims: math, astronomy, medicine
Chinese: tech like printing and gunpowder
What was the cosmic worldview rooted in?
Ptolemy and Aristotle–9 spheres around earth
What new societies arose that challenged the Church?
England’s Royal Society and Paris’s Academie des Sciences
Who started the astronomical rev?
Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs posthumously in 1543
What figures studied the planets following Copernicus?
Tycho Brahe–Danish
Kepler–Brahe’s student, 3 laws
Bruno–infinite universe
Galileo–inertia and books proving heliocentricism
Newton–gravity, calc, and proved heliocentricism
What happened to Galileo?
books banned for heresy, threatened and arrested for ideas
Rene Descartes
skepticism, nature is like a machine
Bacon
scientific method
In what ways was life improving at this time? Name 3 medical advances
Parcelius’s cures, Vesalius’s drawings of anatomy, Harvey’s studying of heart
Who commented on political science at this time?
Thomas Hobbes– Leviathan not divine-right, but ability for monarchs
John Locke–tabula rasa–all humans are created equal, no divine right–Two Treatises of Government–right to rule self
What sad fate came to many single women at this time?
charged with superstition
