Warm Up: answer in your notebook How can revolutions change life as we know it? List at least 3 revolutions.

Causes of the Scientific Revolution Medieval Intellectual Life and Medieval Universities The Italian Renaissance Renewed emphasis on mathematics Renaissance system of patronage Navigational problems of long sea voyages Better scientific instruments

“Turning Points in History Scientific Revolution” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ho dYUDDfsY

The Scientific Revolution was a drastic change in the way people viewed the world. It was an intellectual revolution, a change in human thought. Revolutionaries attempted to understand and explain the natural world instead of relying on religious doctrine and established thought for explanation. The Renaissance encouraged individualism; therefore, many people questioned the authority of the church and age-old beliefs. As a result, scientists set out to prove theories based on logic and reason and research soon proved these theories true.

The Scientific Revolution….. The beginning of modern science and the Scientific Method that uses logic, observation, and reason rather than faith. Do your remember the…

The Scientific Method A Logical Approach Bacon and Descartes Revolution in thinking leads to development of scientific method—a series of steps for forming and testing scientific theories Bacon and Descartes Thinkers Bacon and Descartes help to create scientific method Bacon urges scientists to experiment before drawing conclusions Descartes advocates using logic and math to reason out basic truths

Watch the video clip. Answer the question from the previous slide in your notebook. Do not use pronouns. http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view?asset Guid=7CFAB181-257E-43DA-A7C3- 9FF60912F6DF&showBreadcrumbs=true

“Scientific Revolution – Copernicus, Galileo, Newton” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGtriSso6r0&feature=en dscreen&NR=1

Consequences of the Scientific Revolution Rise of the “Scientific Community” -Royal Society of London -Academy of Royal Sciences The modern scientific method A universe ordered according to natural laws

IV. Consequences of the Scientific Revolution (cont) Laws discovered by human reason “De-Spiritualized” and de- mystified the Universe Mechanical View of the Universe Deistic View of God --God as the cosmic capitalist