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The Scientific Revolution. Changing the Views of the Universe. Copernicus Challenges Ancient Astronomy Published Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Proposed a Heliocentric model of the universe Tycho Brahe Provided evidence supporting Copernicus
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Changing the Views of the Universe • Copernicus Challenges Ancient Astronomy • Published Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres • Proposed a Heliocentric model of the universe • Tycho Brahe • Provided evidence supporting Copernicus • Studied the night sky watching the movement of the heavenly bodies • After his death his assistant Johannes Kepler used Brahe’s research to calculate the orbits of the planets
Galileo Galilei • Dutch Invent a device used to spot ship on the horizon • Galileo points it to the sky • Discovered mountains on the moon • Builds larger telescope and observes moons of Jupiter orbiting • Finding contradicted the ancient views of the world was condemned by the church
What Happened… • Tried by the Inquisition • Ordered to spent the rest of his life in prison • Made to recant his findings and say the Earth is stationary • Muttered under his breath “and yet it moves”
New Scientific Method • Despite the opposition of the church during the 1600 a new way to approach science emerged • During the Renaissance the works of Plato are rediscovered • Plato taught that Man should look beyond the simple explanation to learn natures truths • Helped shape the view of the world
Step by Step process Scientific Method is used as a process of discovery Requires scientist to collect data and explain the data using a hypothesis Francis Bacon – stressed experimentation and observation Rene Descartes – emphasized human reasoning
Breakthroughs in Medicine • Made efforts to study the human body • Was thought against to Church to dissect a human so until this point had to dissect animals
Andreas Vesalius • Published On the Structure of the human body • First accurate detailed study of the human body • Believed in using what ever means necessary to increase knowledge • Used influence to be invited to Autopsies
Ambroise Pare • Developed an effective ointment for treating infections • Invented new surgical techniques • Introduced the use of artificial limbs
Other discoveries • William Harvey – how the heart works • Anton von Leeuwenhoek – Microscope • Became the first to see human cells