September 20, 2016 Global II Agenda: DO NOW: Term Matching NOTES #3: What was the significance of the Scientific Revolution? CLASS ASSIGNMENT: “New Ideas and New Ways of Thinking”

What was the significance of the Scientific Revolution? Notes #3

The Scientific Revolution was a period during the 1500s and 1600s when scientists began to question old ideas about the world. Geocentric theory Aristotle

During this period, scientists promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on observation and experimentation.

Famous scientists of the Scientific Revolution included: Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton. Copernicus Galileo Newton

Copernicus used math to prove that the universe was sun-centered (heliocentric). Heliocentric theory

Galileo confirmed Copernicus’s findings through his use of the telescope.

Newton used math to prove the existence of gravity. Law of Gravity 

Due to the works of these scientists, the scientific method was used to solve problems by the 1600s.

Galileo before Pope Urban VIII (1633) Clergy (leaders) of the Catholic Church expressed the most amount of opposition to the findings of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo before Pope Urban VIII (1633)

Signing the Declaration of Independence The Scientific Revolution later resulted in reason and experimentation being applied to political thinking during the 1700s (the Enlightenment). John Locke Signing the Declaration of Independence