1. The Scientific Revolution

2. Everything during the Renaissance & Reformation looked to the past for models. Science looked ahead...

3. Nicolaus Copernicus
Proposed that the earth traveled around the sun

4. Tycho Brahe
Refuted theory of celestial spheres which states that the universe was unchanging

5. Father of Science
Galileo Galilei
The Church condemned him for challenging Christian teachings that the heavens were fixed, unmoving and perfect
Father of modern physics
Improved the telescope
Invented military compass
Thermometer

6. Scientific Method
Roger Bacon- stressed use of experiments & observation in seeking knowledge
Descartes- Father of analytical geometry and provided basic calculus that would help others like Newton

7. Sir Isaac Newton Invented reflecting telescope
Discovered gravity and developed 3 laws of motion
Law of inertia
Acceleration
For every action there is a reaction

8. Robert Boyle Boyle’s Law
relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas
pV=k

9. Medicine- William Harvey
English physician
Described circulation of blood from the heart to the body

10. The Search for Spices Opened door for the Age of Exploration
Cinnamon, pepper, & cloves

11. Explorers Bartholomeau Dias Portuguese explorer
First to sail around the tip of Africa in 1488

12. Vasco de Gama
First European to lead expedition to India

13. Christopher Columbus Believed in a Western route to Asia
1492 –Landed in the Americas after 2 months
Reached Caribbean Islands

14. Amerigo Vespucci Italian explorer
The Americas derived their name from him
Discovered mouth of the Amazon

15. Balboa Spanish explorer
Known crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean

16. Magellan
First to circumnavigate the globe –sail completely around the Earth

17. Magellan’s Voyage