1. The Scientific Revolution
Cause of the Enlightenment

2. Key Figures of the Sc. Revolution
Name
From?
Contribution
Impact
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Brahe
Kepler
Galileo
Bacon
Descartes
Newton

3. Aristotle Ancient Greek Philosopher (384-322 BCE)
Developed early form of experimentation and observation (Father of Scientific Method)
Foundations of Geocentric Theory

4. Ptolemy Ancient Greek Astonomer (90-168CE) “Student” of Aristotle
Used observation
Founded Geocentric Theory (150 CE)
Geo = Earth
Centric = Center
Catholic Church adopts his theory

5. Nicholas Copernicus Polish clergyman- Catholic (1473-1543)
Heliocentric Theory
Helio=sun
Centric = center
Publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestrium on his death bed (1543)
Challenged the Church
Polish $1-pass around

6. Tycho Brahe Danish Astronomer (Denmark 1546-1601) Had a fake nose
Set up an observatory
Theory ½ between Ptolemy & Copernicus. Why?
Fears church?

7. Johannes Kepler Brahe’s assistant German Noble & Scientist (1571-1630)
Backs Heliocentric theory with math
Prints findings
Lutheran
3 Laws of Planetary motion
Elliptical, velocity, orbital times.

8. Galileo Galilei Italian Scientist (1564-1642)
1st Catholic to confirm Heliocentric theory
Work w/ gravity
Wrote Dialogue Concerning the 2 Chief World System
More devastating than Luther?
Forced to recant
Story about torture chamber
song
Lippershey
1609

9. Sir Francis Bacon English philosopher & Scientist (1561-1626)
Scientific Method
Observe
Hypothesize
Experiment
Test
Conclusion
He brought it home!
Truth not assumed

10. Isaac Newton
English philosopher, mathematician, & physicist & ( )
Laws of Gravity
Calculus
Principia
Asking the question is only ½ the problem, the proof remains
Apple fall?

11. Rene Descartes French philosopher & mathematician (1596-1650)
Devised geometry
Said “I think, therefore I am”
Means?
Sum of Age of Reason?

12. Other Key Figures Celsius- 1742 0 degr. Janssen- 1590 microsc.
Galen ( CE) anatomy dissects animals (greek)
Vesalius 1453 book & 1st to legally dissect
Jenner 1780’s vaccine for smallpox
Boyle-1661 book, founder of chemistry
Janssen microsc.
Leeuwenhoek-1st bacteria/blood 1670’s
Torricelli st mercury barometer
Fahrenheit st glass barometer 32 degrees