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Ch 13 The Scientific Revolution
All about the birth of modern science.
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History
7th Grade
03/07/2012

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Scientific Revolution
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Series of events leading to the birth of modern science.
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Who people believed before scientific revolution
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Explanations given by the Catholic Church officials.
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Root of "science"
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Latin word meaning knowledge or understanding
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Scientific Knowledge is based on...
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Observations, Facts, and logical ideas
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Main Greek Philosophers..
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Aristotle, Ptolemy
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Greek Thinkers Were
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Rationalists
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Rationalist
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person that looks at the world in a logical way.
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Muslim scholars contribution to the scientific revolution
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Muslim scholars preserved and studied ancient texts.
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Maimonides
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Jewish scholar tried to unite Aristotle's work with Jewish ideas.
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Thomas Aquinas
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Christian scholar that tried to unite Aristotle works with Christian ideas.
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Alchemy
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Early form of Chemistry
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Alchemists were best known for...
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trying to change other metals into gold
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4 roots of Scientific Revolution
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Greek ideas, scholars of three faiths, renaissance humanism, and knowledge of exploration
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What made people start to doubt Greek teachings?
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When Christopher Columbus bumped into North America instead of Asia, using Ptolemy's map, in which North America wasn't on.
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What marked the beginning of the Scientific Revolution?
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When a book was published by Nicolaus Copernicus called "on the revolution of the celestial spheres" in 1543.
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Copernicus's findings
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Earth and the other planets orbited the sun in a circular orbit.
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Tycho's main accomplishment
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emphasized the importance of careful observation and detailed, accurate RECORDS
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Johannes Kepler's main accomplishment
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Wrote that all planets moved in elliptical (oval) orbits, helping prove Copernicus's theory.
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First person to use the telescope
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Galileo
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Galileo Galilei
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Interested in mechanics, first person to routinely use experiments to test what he observed.
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Who is the "father of experimental science"?
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Galileo
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High point of Scientific Revolution was marked by...
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the publication of the book "Principia Mathematica" by Sir Isaac Newton
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Newton
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one of the most influential scientists who ever lived.
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Newton's laws
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Law of Gravity, Laws of Motion
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Calculus
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Invented by Newton, a very advanced form of math scientists use to solve complex problems.
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Barometer
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instrument used to measure air pressure, invented by Torricelli
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Microscope
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Makes things appear bigger, invented by Janssen
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Thermometer
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Used to measure temperature, invented by Galileo
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Telescope
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Improved by Galileo,
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Francis Bacon
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argued that science should be pursued in a systematic fashion
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Rene Descartes
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French philosopher, doubted everything until it can be proven with reason,
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SCIENTIFIC METHOD
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step by step method for performing experiments and other scientific research
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Steps of SCIENTIFIC METHOD
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state problem, gather information, form a hypothesis, test your hypothesis, record and analyze data, and draw conclusions.
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Ways in which scientists thought they could improve society
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-changing its government
-Equality
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Reason for conflict between science and church
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-science put forth ideas that contradicted church teachings
-when church was contradicted, it weakened the church
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Trial of Galileo
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-put on trial by the inquisition, in which he had to publicly reject his teachings.
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