1. Vocabulary Scientific Revolution Heliocentric Theory
A new way of thinking based on observation and questioning accepted beliefs.
Heliocentric Theory
Theory that the sun is the center of the universe.

2. Warm-Up
What do you think is a scientific revolution?

3. EQ: HOW DID THE IDEAS OF THE REFORMATION TRANSFER TO NEW SCIENTIFIC THINKING?

4. Scientific Revolution

5. Roots of Modern Science
To find answers, people looked to the Greeks, Romans, and the Bible.
Geocentric Theory
Belief that the earth was the center of the universe.
The Scientific Revolution began b/c of discoveries of new lands and animals.
This opened the possibility that there were new truths to be found.

6. A Revolutionary Theory
Copernicus developed the heliocentric theory but was afraid of persecution.
Kepler showed that Copernicus’s ideas were mathematically true.
Galileo supported Copernicus and, by using a telescope, noted that the Earth’s moon had a rough and uneven surface.
Went against the Church and Aristotle.
Galileo was summoned to Rome to read a statement that Copernicus’s ideas were false.

7. The Scientific Method
Francis Bacon urged scientists to experiment and then draw conclusions.
Rene Descartes believed that everything should be doubted until proved by reason.
“I think, therefore I am.”

8. Isaac Newton
Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell.
He began to wonder why apples always fall down, never sideways or up.
Newton’s Law of Gravitation
Every object in the universe attracts every other object.
The degree of attraction depends on the mass of the objects and the distance between them.

9. Scientific Revolution Spreads
New Inventions
Microscope
Barometer
Thermometer
Fahrenheit- 32˚ is freezing
Celsius- 0˚ is freezing
Medicine
Proved that the human body was different than pigs.
1st vaccination (smallpox)
Chemistry
Proved that the world was made up of more than just the earth, air, fire and water.

10. GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

11. EQ: HOW DID THE IDEAS OF THE REFORMATION TRANSFER TO NEW SCIENTIFIC THINKING?

12. Closing
Why do you think the Church rejected Galileo’s findings?