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The Scientific Revolution

HWH Unit 3 Chapter 1.5. The Scientific Revolution. A New World-View. Connections to the Renaissance and the Reformation A re-examination of ancient texts Skepticism toward old assumptions Challenging the Catholic Church. The Old World-View. Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Geocentrism.

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The Scientific Revolution

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  1. HWH Unit 3 Chapter 1.5 The Scientific Revolution

  2. A New World-View • Connections to the Renaissance and the Reformation • A re-examination of ancient texts • Skepticism toward old assumptions • Challenging the Catholic Church

  3. The Old World-View • Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Geocentrism

  4. Support for Geocentrism • Aristotle’s logic • Ptolemy’s math • The Bible

  5. Copernicus and Heliocentrism • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

  6. Support for Copernicus • Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) • Observational support for Copernicus • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) • Elliptical orbits

  7. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

  8. Galileo and the Inquisition

  9. Bacon, Descartes, and the Scientific Method Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

  10. Baconian Thought • Empiricism • Inductive reasoning • Start with a question, end with a certainty

  11. Cartesian Thought • Systematic doubt • “Cogito ergo sum” • Deductive reasoning • Rationalism

  12. Modern Application Baconian empiricism and induction + Cartesian rationalism and deduction = The modern scientific method

  13. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) • The Structure of the Human Body (1543)

  14. William Harvey (1578-1657) • On the Movement of the Heart and Blood (1628)

  15. Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

  16. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

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