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The Scientific Revolution (1500s-1700s)

The Scientific Revolution (1500s-1700s). What was the Scientific Revolution?. Beginning of modern science in the 1500’s Scientific method: Depends upon logic , observation , and reason rather than faith Created the technologies and techniques that built the modern world

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The Scientific Revolution (1500s-1700s)

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  1. The Scientific Revolution(1500s-1700s)

  2. What was the Scientific Revolution? • Beginning of modern science in the 1500’s • Scientific method: Depends upon logic, observation, and reason rather than faith • Created the technologies and techniques that built the modern world • Created paradigm of our solar system. (a model or pattern for something that may be copied)

  3. Revolution in Epistemology and Philosophy • Universities formed • Rediscovery of classical science • Leading figures • Bacon - stressed experimentation and observation • Brahe – Danish astronomer • Copernicus – astronomer –proposed heliocentric view of planets • Descartes -proposed the need to search for provable knowledge • Galileo – proved earth revolves around the sun • Kepler – discovered planets orbits are elliptical • Newton - scientist who argued that there were uniform laws of nature and that all motions could be measured mathematically

  4. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) • Earth revolves around the sun • Wrote the book “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” • Heliocentric theory: • Sun is the center of the solar system NOT the earth

  5. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) • Danish royal astronomer • Observed and mapped over 700 stars in a 20-year period

  6. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) • Preferred inductive reasoning and facts over theory • Invented the scientific method

  7. Galileo Galilei(1564-1642) • “I recant” (I take back what I said.) (Fearing torture, and fearing that he might share the fate of Giordano Bruno, whom the church burned at the stake a generation earlier for the same crime, Galileo recanted the truth) • Invented the telescope, pendulum clock, thermometer, water pump, and sector • Discovered speed of acceleration for gravity. • g = 9.81 m/s2

  8. Johann Kepler(1571-1630) • Brahe’s student or 20 years • Living during 30 years of war (1618-1648) • Loved the planets and made it his life’s work to explain the motion of planets • Invented Three Laws of Planetary Motion

  9. Rene Descartes (1595-1650) • Believed in deductive logic (to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed) • Deduced the existence of God • Invented Cartesian geometry (xy axis) • “I think therefore I am”

  10. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) • Wrote The Principia • Tied up the loose ends of Kepler and Galileo • Created Three Laws of Motion • Defined gravity and its laws • Invented optics (for telescopes) and calculus

  11. Rise of the Scientific Community • Developed the modern scientific method • Universe ordered according to natural laws • Discovered that scientific laws can be discovered by human reason • Took the role of a deity or godout of the study of the universe • Mechanical views of the universe • Deistic view of God (Deists believe that a creator god does exist, but that after the motions of the universe were set in place he retreated, having no further interaction with the created universe or the beings within it)

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