1. Ohio Learning Standard #5
* The Scientific Revolution impacted religious, political and cultural institutions by challenging how people viewed the world

2. Nicolaus Copernicus
Prussian Mathematician (born 1473) who developed interest in A__________ while studying at Krakow Univ in Poland
Acquired major collection of books - including those of Greek philosophers Aristotle
and Ptolemy (Geo_______)

3. Heliocentric System
Creation of a planetary model of Solar System - which names the _______, rather than Earth, as the center
Uses Mathematical system for proving theory & builds larger, more complex T____________ to view planets in motion

4. Copernican Assumptions
*The center of the Earth is not the center of the universe, but only of gravity and of the lunar sphere
*All the spheres (Planets) revolve about the sun at their mid-point (Axis), therefore sun is the center of the universe
*Earth together with its elements performs complete rotation on its fixed poles in a daily motion
*What appear as motions of the sun arise not from its motion but from motion of the earth with which we revolve about the sun … like any other planet

5. Eclipses & Tides
Publishes book - On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Mathematical calculations of planet rotations and motions (forces) of the Moon - including Solar & Lunar

6. The Universe – according to Copernicus

7. Galileo Galilei
Mathematics professor in Pisa, Italy during the 16th Century
Supported the Copernican theory of a sun-centered Solar System called: H_____________ Planetary System
Experiments with falling objects & views about how objects move in M________

8. University of Pisa
Wrote Discourse on Bodies in Water - refuting explanation of why objects float in water (flat shape)… but weight of the object in relation to Water D____________

9. Scientific Analysis & Publication
Pioneering observations of nature & study of physics
Developed Inductive Reasoning & Scientific Method
Produced Terrestrial Telescope & Military Compass

10. Acceptance … or Not?
Accused of h_________ by the church for his beliefs & for his books on scientific-based ideas
Church I___________ charged Copernican theory heretical
Ordered not to “teach or defend” the Copernican theory