1. Bell ringer
Analyze the diagram and explain what you think it may be. It’s OKAY to be wrong. Just think about it. Yes, it’s in Latin.

2. 6.1 The scientific revolution

3. Setting the stage Renaissance Rebirth of learning sparks curiosity
Reformation
Challenges previously accepted beliefs
Exploration
Scholars question what they previously knew about the world

4. Medieval view Geocentric theory Earth at the center of the universe
Idea from Aristotle and Ptolemy
Christianity taught that God placed Earth at the center

5. Scientific revolution
New way of thinking about the natural world
Willingness to question accepted beliefs
What does this picture represent?

6. Why did it begin? Discoveries in the New World led to new truths
Printing press helped spread/challenge ideas
Suddenly there was a greater need for
Navigational equipment
Geographical equipment
More research in astronomy and mathematics

7. Heliocentric theory (HT)
Nicholas Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Discovered HT = sun- centered theory
Fear of publishing findings
Johannes Kepler
Continued Copernicus’ work to confirm HT
Mathematical laws govern planetary motion.

8. Galileo galilei Starry Messenger (1610)
Confirmed HT
Jupiter had 4 moons, sun had dark spots, and moon had craters
Findings threatened Catholic Church
Why?
Stood trial (1633) and forced to live in house arrest until death

9. Galileo’s trial

10. The scientific method Developed after revolution in thinking
Problem arises – go through steps – form conclusion
Based on work of Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
Experimental method
Analytical geometry
All modern scientific methods are based on this idea from 1600’s

11. Bacon and descartes

12. Isaac newton All physical objects affected equally by same forces
Law of universal gravitation published in 1687

14. Scientific instruments and chemistry
Janssen – microscope – 1590
Torricelli – barometer – 1643
Fahrenheit – thermometer using mercury– 1714
Celsius – another thermometer scale – 1742
Boyle – founder of modern chemistry (Boyle’s law)

15. Medicine and the human body
Vesalius
Published observations of human anatomy (1543)
Jenner
Created smallpox vaccine (late 1700’s)