1. Scientific Revolution
Result of the Renaissance and the Reformation
New way of thinking about natural world
Based on careful observations and willingness to question accepted beliefs
Include works of Muslim scholars and classical manuscripts

2. Copernicus Developed math theory that stated
Earth and other planets revolve around the sun
Earth rotated on its axis daily
Shock because many believed that earth was center of universe
Became known as the Heliocentric theory
Most educated people had accepted belief that earth was not flat but a sphere

3. Galileo Writings supported the heliocentric theory
Showed how rotation of earth produced a rotation of heavens
How stars great distance from earth prevent man from seeing their changed rotation as the earth moved around the sun
His theory will bring him conflict with the Catholic church which support Ptolemy theory of the earth being the center of the universe

4. Galileo was charge with heresy
will recant his findings
His book The Index will be banned
Under house arrest he will continue his research

5. Scholastic Tradition
Early in the Renaissance chief method of determining truth was to used reason.
Based on Aristotle
Sometimes led to heresies
Other times used to explain faith

6. Scientific Method Born out of scholastic tradition
Reason alone not good enough had to
Prove
Document
Repeat
Open up for experimentation
Developed by Copernicus and Galileo

7. Contributors Brahe Bacon Kepler Built observatory and recorded data
Ideas based on tradition or unproven facts should be discarded
Science is a way to improve people’s lives
Kepler
Developed laws on planetary motion
Planets travel at different speeds, faster as they approach the sun

8. Sir Isaac Newton Descartes Principia Laws of gravity Calculus
Truth must be reach through reason
Invented analytic geometry
Begin to search for knowledge by doubting every thing except own existence
“I think, therefore I am”

9. Fahrenheit and Celsius
Vesalius
Human anatomy
Harvey
Circulatory system of blood
Janseen
Microscope
Galileo
Telescope
Fahrenheit and Celsius
Scales for thermometers

10. Copernicus
Used astronomy and math to disprove Hellenistic belief that earth center of universe

11. Western vs. Chinese Scientific thought
Dealt with specific facts that were practical in nature
Western
Formulated general laws of nature that had roots in Islamic and Greek philosophy
Believed that principles could be utilized for the improvement of mankind

12. Scientific Revolution led to a rift in the science world. Some people
Continue their Christian beliefs
Atheists-
Believe that no God exists
Deists
Believe that God is powerful and created the world
But does not interfere with its workings
Its role is to set natural laws in motion
View God as a watchmaker
One who set up the world
Gave it natural laws to operate by
Then let it run itself
Under natural laws that could be proved by math

13. Questioning the Pope
Both the Reformation and Scientific Revolution challenge the Pope’s authority
Reformation
Challenge Pope’s authority on theological grounds
Scientific Revolution
Challenge Pope’s authority on scientific and mathematical grounds
Scientific Revolution will play as large as impact on religious change as the Reformation.