What Is The Cause Of The Scientific Revolution?

During the Scientific Revolution, new discoveries in astronomy sparked the interest of scientists leading to further development to future ideas. Before the 1500s, civilization had concluded that the theory of a geocentric system, originally proposed by Claudius Ptolemy in 140 AD, was accurate. The Geocentric Theory is the belief that Earth is the center of the Universe and everything revolves around it (chuckfarlieAUS). Although in the 16th and 17th century, there was a rapid succession of new theories that became relevant. New astronomers, like Nicolas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, showed reasons as too why their ideas about a heliocentric system, or everything revolving around the sun, were true. Nicolas Copernicus was an astronomer that …show more content…
Kepler developed laws such as the three laws of planetary motion. He began to determine that the distance between the planets was a certain amount and not just purely random. He learned that each planet had a gravitational pull that attracted each planet towards each other although the thought of gravity had not been uncovered. This pull lead to the set amount of space between each planet. Kepler had also made discoveries about the sudden appearance of stars. One night he was watching through his telescope and observed the sudden appearance of light where he had not seen any before. He wondered why this occurred and figured out that it was because the light took time for it to travel all the way from the star to Earth’s atmosphere (Gregersen, Erik). This was an astonishing discovery for the world because before everyone had just thought that there was a set number of stars. Up until then, no one had realized that there had been an almost infinite number of stars in our ever-expanding universe that were so far away that they just couldn’t be seen. With this knowledge people would be able to determine the distance between stars and the distance they are from Earth. Although that the scientific community would not be able to find out the speed of light until later on in the future. Kepler’s astronomic discoveries were not the only thing that he had been known for. He hypothesized about how magnetism …show more content…
Newton had invented a new type of telescope, called the refracting telescope. His model was based upon some of the telescopes Galileo had invented. It would take the light and run it through a medium to allow for the waves to slow down and possibly change directional angles. The telescope uses two lenses to produce a multitude of size scaling images. Depending on the length of the glass inside of the telescope, it would be able to focus the magnification and emphasis on small details of the image. Although this new technology had limitations. Refracting telescopes would not be able to produce accurate color to what the light is protruding from the source. This was due to the change of the angle of light via the large lens in the telescope. It was also hard to create a piece of glass that would have to be extremely seamless and excluding alterations to the optimal shape. If there was just one alteration, there would be a large change in the outcome image showed to the viewer. The telescope Newton had created lead to him being able to produce more accurate star mapping that Galileo ever could with the 30x magnification telescope. His models lead to the invention of the radiowave telescope, which gives extremely accurate data about terrestrial objects (ChuckfarlieAUS). Newton is also credited for the first discovery of a comet in a revolutionary orbit