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| a period during the late renaissance when new ideas in sciences led to the uestioning and even rejection of doctrines that had been prevailed; laid the foundation sof modern cience |
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| the belief that people can prove all things by using their reason and by questioning and experimenting; led to sceintific or controlled investigation |
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| the method of obtaining knowledge through doubt and uncertainties |
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| among the first to look for answers to many scientific questions (mostly monks who tried to explain away the conflicts between faith and reason) |
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| medieval way of reasoning |
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| a way to investigate difficult problems that consists of experimenting and observing and in building up conclusions by inductive reasoning |
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| a.k.a. earth-centered system, Ptolemy’s system that says the planets, sun, and moon revolve around the earth in a complicated system of circles within circles |
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| a.k.a. Copernican theory, states that the earth, planets, and moon revolve around the sun in a system of perfect circles at the same speed |
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| Newton’s theory that states that states that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force equal to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
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| principle of body of laws considered as derived from nature, right, reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society that is shown by science |
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o Calculus
o Laws of light and color
o Theory of gravitation |
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o Telescope
o Added to heliocentric theory by discovering Jupiter’s moons
o Discovered rate at which objects fall |
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| o Circulation and properties of blood (circulatory system, heart as a pump) |
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o All living things are born from their parents
o Disproved spontaneous reproducibility
o Flesh-fly theory |
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o Disproved geocentric theory (Ptolemy’s theory)
o Copernican theory=heliocentric theory
Believed that the earth, planets, and moon revolve around the Sun in a system of perfect circles at the same speed |
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o Used inductive reasoning
o Father of scientific method |
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o Planetary motion (elliptical orbits)
o Speeds depend on distance from the Sun |
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o Geocentric theory (earth-centered)
Believed the planets, sun, and moon revolved around the Earth in a complicated system of circles within circles |
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mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon paper or cloth thereby transferring an image
Created by Johannes Gutenberg in 1456
Allowed news to travel much faster |
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| 95 statements against the sale of indulgences and other grievances with the Catholic Church; Martin Luther nailed them to door of the Chapel of Wittenburg |
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| a instant forgiveness of all sins, even those that might occur in the future, in return for repentance (or financial payment); written on slip of paper singed by pope |
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| comes from the word “protesting estates” which refers to the six princes and fourteen cities that protested the demand of Charles V to use the traditional forms of Catholic worship in his empire |
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| he system of theological and philosophical teaching based chiefly upon the authority of the Church |
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| movable-type printing press |
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| mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon paper or cloth thereby transferring an image |
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o Established 1st protestant church governed by ministers
o Led 2nd generation of reformers in Switzerland
o Stripped churches of all paintings and statues
o Calvanists
o God was intolerant and forbidding |
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o 95 thesis
o What saved a Christian was FAITH
o Claimed Bible, not pope, was source of truth |
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o Launched a massive campaign to rebuild St. Peter’s Cathedral
o Worldliest of Renaissance popes, constantly soliciting funds from his subjects
o Allowed sale of indulgences |
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