Quick Notes: The Scientific Revolution

Changes:

·      affects intellectual life, prompts change in popular outlook

·      Science rose and became a big part of thinking

Importance:

·      changes the world socially

·      longer lives, more accomplishment

·      started by Renaissance ideals

Experiments and Mathematics:

·      Europeans (Arisotle) look to ancient Greece for universal answers

·      not trusted unless proved by science

·      Leads to the Scientic Method

Copernicus:

·      Polish Monk (16^th century)

·      reveals planets move around the sun, sets other discoveries in motion

·      Arab scientist did have a similar theory 200 years prior

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630):

·      Like Copernicus, studies planetary movement

·      figures that the planets didn’t moved in perfect orbit

Galileo:

·      provided proof to Kepler’s discovery

·      credited with making first use of telescope to observe the heavens

·      Condemned by Catholic Church, contradicted the bible

·      created great interest in astronomy

William Harvey:

·      Englishman

·      demonstrated the circular movement of blood in animals- heart “pumping station”

·      interest in anatomy

·      Harvey made a blood transfusion from a calf to a human vein

Rene Descartes (1596-1650):

·      French philosopher

·      believes everything must be proven through thought

·      “I think, therefore I am”

Sir Isaac Newton:

·      combines findings of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo

·      explained why planets moved around the sun

·      law of universal gravity discovered

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