1. New Astronomy and Mathematics

2. Background to the Scientific Revolution
Renaissance Influence  Revival of classics, new artistic techniques
New technologies & mathematics
New desire to understand and dominate nature
Old Science: Aristotle, Geocentric conception

4. Quick Chat
How did events and developments from Unit One (Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Exploration, Absolutism & Constitutionalism) contribute to the development of the Scientific Revolution?

5. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543)
Heliocentric conception  On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Condemned by Protestants, Jews, and Catholics

6. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) & Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Brahe  Danish nobleman & astronomer
20 years of detailed observations
Johannes Kepler  Brahe’s assistant
Kepler appointed Imperial Mathematician by HRE
Three Laws of Planetary Motion

7. Galileo Galilei ( )
First European to use telescope  New age in astronomy
Challenged traditional view of static nature of the universe
The Starry Messenger (1610), Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Condemned by Roman Inquisition  Put under house arrest for 8 years

8. Isaac Newton ( )
Created synthesis of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo
Invented calculus, developed law of universe gravitation
Became wealthy & famous in his own lifetime, published Principia (1686)