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Explore the significance of the Scientific Revolution, a period in the 1500s and 1600s when scientists challenged old ideas, promoted observation and experimentation, and laid the foundation for the scientific method. Learn about key scientists like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and how their discoveries led to a new way of thinking. Discover how the Scientific Revolution later impacted political thinking during the Enlightenment.
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September 17, 2019 Global II History Agenda: DO NOW: Term Matching NOTES #3: What was the significance of the Scientific Revolution? CLASS ASSIGNMENT: “New Ideas and New Ways of Thinking”
What was the significance of the Scientific Revolution? Notes #3
The Scientific Revolution was a period during the 1500s and the 1600s when scientists began to question old ideas about the world. Geocentric theory Aristotle
During this period, scientists promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on observation and experimentation.
1. Nicolaus Copernicus, who used math to prove that the universe was sun-centered (heliocentric). Heliocentric theory
2. Galileo Galilei, who confirmed Copernicus’s findings through his use of the telescope.
3. Isaac Newton, who used math to prove the existence of gravity. Law of Gravity
As a result of these scientists’ works, the scientific method was used to solve problems by the 1600s.
Clergy (leaders) of the Catholic Church expressed the most amount of opposition to the findings of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo before Pope Urban VIII (1633)
The Scientific Revolution later resulted in reason and experimentation being applied to political thinking during the 1700s (the Enlightenment). John Locke Signing the Declaration of Independence
