STAS 3 Flashcards
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human needs and wants.
Scientific Revolution
call of the times and created
Brilliant minds
people’s perceptions and beliefs.
Scientific Revolution
Much of these events happened in a period now known as
Intellectual Revolution
refer to the great intellectual achievements of science
Scientific Revolution
the golden age for people
Scientific revolution
The Scientific Revolution develops as an offshoot of the
Renaissance
questioning spirit, traditional, natural world.
Renaissance
Earth is at the center was supported during the Middle Ages
geocentric model
were the only authorities accepted as truth
the Bible and Aristotle
taught that the Earth was the center of the universe.
Ptolemy
was supported by the Church
geocentric theory
refers to complex technological innovations from 1750 to 1895, marking the birth of modern economy.
Industrial revolution
fueled a great deal of scientific research because of technology needed for navigation
Age of Exploration
- was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who studied in Italy.
- published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).
- The universe is heliocentric, or sun-centered.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus’ model of the solar system:
- Sun
- Moon
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
came to these conclusions using mathematical formulas.
- Copernicus
marked the start of modern science and astronomy.
Copernican conception of the universe
- the Danish astronomer
- provided evidence that supported Copernicus’ heliocentric theory.
- astronomical observatory
- the stars and planets.
Tycho Brahe
- Most scholars rejected his theory because it went against Ptolemy, the Church, and because it called for the Earth
rotate on its axis.
- the German astronomer and mathematician
- used Brahe’s data to calculate the orbits
- oval shaped orbits
Johannes Kepler
- who built upon the scientific foundations laid by Copernicus and Kepler.
- first telescope
- rotated around the sun.
- discovered fall at the same speed regardless of weight
- fixed and unmoving.
- recanted
- house arrest not allowed to publish his ideas.
Galileo Galilei
- who built upon the work of Copernicus and Galileo.
- most influential scientist of the Scientific Revolution
- prove the existence of gravity
- laws of light and color
- laws of motion
- He invented calculus
Sir Isaac Newton
- Studied medicine at Edinburgh, theology at Cambridge
- developed the biological theory of evolution
- observed that the characteristics of many animals and plants
- patterns he’d seen on his voyage
Charles Darwin