1. The Scientific Revolution

2. The Scientific Revolution
Burst of learning and understanding, based around new ways of looking at the world
Born out of Renaissance and Reformation, and some of the new thoughts that were a reaction to absolutism
Challenged Ancient Greek and Medieval views of the world. Codified science and discovery, creating norms and fields. Like the scientific method, and physics
Main players: Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, and Newton

3. Copernicus & Galileo
Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus postulated a heliocentric theory of the solar system—arguing the sun, not the Earth was the center of the solar system. This did at least change the calendar.
The Ancient Greeks had taught the geocentric theory, as had the church, this argued the church was wrong and therefore fallible.
But no one took Copernicus very seriously at first. Then some guys like Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler started to agree.
Finally, a brilliant Italian physicist, who would come up with laws of uniform motion and basic relativity, Galileo Galilei, also began to agree, and he told people as much, loudly in New Astronomy.

5. Galileo & the Church
Galileo was warned to shut up—he had insulted the church astronomers, and called the church wrong at a time when it was being heavily challenged by Protestantism
So, he published Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems, which said both views could be right but argued more for the Copernican view.
Now he was referred to the Inquisition for its publication. He was made to recant and confess because his propositions are “expressedly contrary to the Holy Scriptures [as well as being] absurd, philosophically false, and theologically erroneous in faith.”
He was placed under house arrest, never fully free to move or think again

6. Bacon & Descartes Rene Descartes — French philosopher during Louis XIV
Cogito Ergo Sum — “I think therefore I am” — principal of doubt proved the existence of life and God
Developed and codified Scientific Method
Francis Bacon — also a “scientific philosopher, his ideas and paintings inspired more than his experiments
Classified the idea of “induction.” That by thinking and the slow accumulation of knowledge one would eventually come up with universal laws or truths
Made researchers work together and cooperate.

7. Isaac Newton English scientist who lived in the late 1600s-early 1700s
Most famous for his theory of gravity (FYI: the apple story has been debated and is still, well, debatable, but unlikely)
More important maybe is his laws of motion. They are:
An object in motion shall remain in motion until a force acts upon it
The rate of change of motion is determined by the forces acting on it, like friction
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

8. Effects of the Scientific Revolution
Created a new type of science which called for using facts, data, theories, and research to draw conclusions
Led to advancements in other fields like medicine and war
Amount of time it took for information to travel halved. In 1500 it took four weeks from central Italy to London, by 1700 it took two
Science became institutionalized in education and society— academies formed and scientific patronage became popular.