1. Talkin’ bout a Revolution
The Scientific Revolution is different than say the American Revolution
There is no generally agreed upon start and end date
In fact there is even debate if a Scientific Revolution even took place

2. Talkin’ bout a Revolution
For our purposes let’s say that a Scientific Revolution DID take place
The Scientific Revolution took place between the mid 1500’s to the mid 1700’s

3. Talkin’ bout a Revolution
During this time period there were tremendous advances in areas such as astronomy, mathematics, biology, medicine, physics, among other areas
It was during this time period that what we would call modern science was born

4. The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution began during the Renaissance
With the rediscovery of Greek and Roman texts there was also a rediscovery of scientific ideas

5. Let’s start with

6. Nicolaus Copernicus
One of the events which is pointed to as the start of the Scientific Revolution is Nicolaus Copernicus publishing a book entitled On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer
Lived in the 15th and 16th centuries

8. Nicolaus Copernicus
This book written by Copernicus suggested a heliocentric model of the Universe as opposed to geocentric model of the Universe
The geocentric model states that the Earth is the center of the Universe
The heliocentric model states that the Sun is the center of the Universe

11. Nicolaus Copernicus
Literally reshaped how European’s view of the universe and people’s place in the universe and the overall view of accepted scientific truths
Demonstrates a major shift in the approach to science
Credited with initiating the Scientific Revolution

12. Galileo Galilei

13. Galileo Galilei Galileo was an Italian astronomer and scientist
16th and 17th centuries
He is most commonly remembered as the first person to use a telescope
Though this is for the most part true he did a lot more than this

14. Galileo Galilei
Through his use of the telescope Galileo made many important discoveries
These discoveries include:
Sun Spots
4 Moons of Jupiter
Mountains on the Moon
Strong evidence to support the Heliocentric Model of the Universe

15. Sun Spots

16. 4 Moons of Jupiter

17. Mountains on the Moon

18. Galileo and the Heliocentric Universe
In his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo compares theories on the Universe
Also made huge advancement in observational science, especially in laws of motion and inertia

19. Galileo and the Church
Galileo’s writing on the heliocentric universe was convicted of “grave suspicion of heresy” as part of the Roman Inquisition
This lead to Galileo being placed under house arrest for the last 9 years of his life

20. Trial of Galileo

21. Johannes Kepler German mathematician and astronomer
16th and 17th Centuries
Used Protestant belief in scientific arguments
Believed God created the world according to an intelligible plan that is accessible through the natural light of reason

22. Johannes Kepler Kepler built on the works of Copernicus and Galileo
He made improvements to the telescope, making it more powerful
Kepler is best remembered for his Laws of Planetary Motion

24. Johannes Kepler
Kepler described how the planets orbited around the sun
He described the orbit of planets as an ellipse as opposed to a circle
Kepler put a strong emphasis on God in his work

25. Francis Bacon

26. Francis Bacon
English lawyer and philosopher during the 16th and 17th Century

27. Francis Bacon Bacon was not actually primarily a scientist
Rather he spent more of his time focused on practice philosophy and law
He brought principles of philosophy and law to the practice of science

28. Francis Bacon In 1620 Bacon wrote a book entitled New Method
The new method attempted to replace that of Aristotle
Bacon relied on something called inductive reasoning and empiricism

29. Francis Bacon
Inductive reasoning means moving from particular to a more general
In Bacon’s method scientist start with a hypothesis
The goal was to create general understanding of the world and universal truths

30. Francis Bacon
After the creation of the hypothesis scientists would make lots of observations and collect data
This data and observations would come from a series of test and experiments

31. Isaac Newton English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosophy
in the 17th and 18th Century

32. Isaac Newton Isaac Newton is one the greatest scientists ever
His contributions impacted: mathematics, physics, astronomy, philosophy
He is best remembered for his Universal Laws of Gravity

33. Isaac Newton
Newton published a book called Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy or The Principa
In this Newton described the natural laws which governed the Earth and the Universe
Demonstrates the universe is ruled by reason

35. Newton’s Laws of Motion
Objects in Motion tend to stay in motion and objects at rest tend to stay at rest
Acceleration of an object is dependent on the amount of force put on that object
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction