scientific revolution Flashcards

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geocentric

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medieval view, earth is center, perfect circle paths, stars fixed in sky

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medieval view was all

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bible

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Ptolemaic system

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geocentric

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scientific revolution

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new way, willingness to question beliefs after Renaissance, Muslim scholar influenced, astronomy, physics, math, rediscover classical texts, new world (1492) new animals and plants

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heliocentric universe

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sun is center

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Copernicus

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Polish cleric, 25 years of data, moved sun to center, near rotation, yet couldn’t explain why, Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies (post humus)

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Tycho Brahe

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data, 20 years, does nothing with it, has student-Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler

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student of Tycho Brahe, take all data, mathematical laws govern motion of planets, rotations not circular (elliptical [mercury])

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Galileo Gallile

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at 17 he looked at chandeliers and found out stuff about pendulums, falling objects-Pisa, IMPROVES telescope, 610-starry messenger (Jupiter-4 moons-Medici) (sun spots) (uneven surface of moon), conflict with church-warned not to defend Copernicus, writes book-dialogue, inquisition (takes back everything), house arrest, Medici sneaks all studies to Protestant countries, in 1999 church is like oops

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sir Francis bacon

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scientific method, novum organum-test it urself, use experiment, also was an english politician

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Rene Descartes

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analytical geometry (links algebra to geometry), skip experiments - use logic, reason, and math, “I think, therefor I am” (tried to prove god)

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Isaac Newton

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math-Cambridge, burned down step fathers house, laws of motion - bodies at rest remain at rest, bodies in motion like to remain in a straight line, equal and opposite reactions, force = mass x accelleration (f=m•a), UNIVERSAL GRAVITY

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