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Scientific Awakening
the sci. awakening
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Undergraduate 3
03/13/2007
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Copernicus
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heliocentric model of universe
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Johannes Kepler
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Laws of planetry motion
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Bacon
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Scientic method
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Galileo Galilei
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pendulum weights, physics, moons of jupiter
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Ptolemy
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ancient astronomer belived earth was center of universe
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Robert Hooke
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President of Royal Scoiety- criticized Galileo
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Determinism
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the world can be described in mathematical laws that do not change (Des Cartes)
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