Module 2 Flashcards
This is an important change that happens when a new and different way replaces the usual way of thinking about or doing something.
Paradigm Shift
This is the rise of contemporary science during the early modern period. It involved developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry changed how society viewed the natural world.
Intellectual Revolution
What fields were prominent in the Copernican revolution.
Astronomy and Cosmology
He is a greek philosopher who proposed geocentrism.
Aristotle
This is an earth-centered belief.
Geocentrism
He is a Greco-Roman mathematician who used measurements using epicycles.
Claudius Ptolemy
This is a term for planetary orbits.
Epicycles
This is one of the greatest discoveries of the Copernican Revolution.
Geocentric model
He is a Greek astronomer and mathematician who postulated heliocentrism.
Aristarchus of Samos
This is the sun-centered belief.
Heliocentrism
He supported the heliocentric model and wrote “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.”
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who were the astronomers who supported heliocentrism?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
He was the proponent of Kepler’s Law of Planetary Motion. He proved that planets moved in elliptical orbits around the sun.
Johannes Kepler
This is the most precise equipment available.
Tychonic system
Who made the typhonic system?
Tycho Brahe
Kepler proved that planets moved in ________ around the sun.
elliptical orbits
He observed the four moons of Jupiter and provided that celestial bodies did not revolve around the sun.
Galileo Galilei
Who wrote the “The Starry Messenger?”
Galileo Galilei
Who wrote the “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres?”
Nicolaus Copernicus
He brought the triumph of heliocentrism by using gravity to explain the movement of the planets around the sun.
Isaac Newton
What were the relevant paradigm shifts?
Copernican Revolution
Darwinian Revolution
Freudian Revolution
Baconian Revolution
This paradigm shift was initiated by Charles Darwin.
Darwinian Revolution
He was an English naturalist obsessed in nature. He proposed organismal adaptation and evolution was through the process of natural selection.
Charles Darwin
Who wrote the book “The origin of species” in 1859?
Charles Darwin