1. Aim: How did the Scientific Revolution Change the World?

2. Scientific Revolution – A new way of thinking about the world (Observation and Experiment)
Scientific Method – Procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
Question
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze and Interpret Data
Conclusion

3. Scientific Method

4. Who’s Who? Nicolaus Copernicus Johannes Kepler Galileo Galilei
Heliocentric Theory: Sun-Centered Universe
Johannes Kepler
Planets revolve in an elliptical orbit
Galileo Galilei
Law of the Pendulum (Think Chandelier)
Objects fall at the same rate
Perfected the Telescope

5. Francis Bacon Rene Descartes Isaac Newton
Scientific Method (Experiment)
Rene Descartes
Logic
“I Think, Therefore I am”
Isaac Newton
Laws of Gravity

6. New Tools
Telescope
Microscope (Jannsen)
Barometer
Thermometer

7. The Church Church opposed Scientific Revolution
Galileo is put on trial
Scientists viewed as heretics