Knowledge Connections Definition Picture Term Vocabulary  GeocentricHeliocentric

Essential Question What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?

How did people used to see the world? During the Middle Ages, scholars based their knowledge of science of two sources: →The writing of Ancient Greece and Rome ←The teachings of the Catholic Church

Did they think the Earth was flat? Before the Scientific Revolution… SOME people may have believed the world was flat MANY people believed the Earth was the center of the universe

How did their understandings change? As early as the 1500s, thinkers began to break with traditional ways of thinking Scholars began to gather knowledge in new ways:  Observation  Experimentation  Mathematics Their findings would soon trigger a REVOLUTION A major change

What else did they believe in? the GEOCENTRIC universe Earth centered This was not an easy idea to challenge... People had believed in the idea for over 1400 years!

Who came up with that idea? PTOLEMY  Created the theory of a geocentric universe  Was an Egyptian born astronomer  Lived during the time of the Roman Empire

What did the Church think about that? Ptolemy’s theory fit with the teachings of the Catholic Church The Church taught that God created the earth and people Thus, it made sense that God made the moon, stars, and planets revolved around the place of God’s people

When did these ideas change? It was in the 1500s when scientific knowledge increased Explorers were now able to chart the size and shape of the Earth Scholars were translating the writings of Arab scientists Scientists were studying the motions of stars and planets

What was the result of these changes? ASTRONOMERS invented better tools for looking at the universe The time was right for a revolution that would change the world as it was known Scientists who studying the motions of stars and planets

Essential Question What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?

Scientific Revolution