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What led the way for change?
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Astrology and physics
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Traditional views were based on who?
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Aristotle
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Before the revolution, ideas based upon what two people?
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Aristotle and Ptolemy.
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The earth was fixed at the center of the universe
Ten transparent spheres moved around it Beyond this was the heavens Fit with Christian view Aristotle’s ideas were accepted for 2,000 years because he offered common sense explanations, pacified religion - "Great chain of being" are what ideas? |
Traditional ideas
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He was a Polish clergyman
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Copernicus
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Copernicus based his research on who?
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Ptolemy
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What was known as the sun-centered theory?
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Heliocentric Theory
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What did Copernicus write?
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On the Revolution of the
Heavenly Spheres (1543) |
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When did Copernicus denounced his theories?
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1616
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planets orbit in elliptical motions
velocity varies according to distance from the sun planets move faster closer to the sun |
3 laws of motion
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He was a mathematician
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Galileo
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Galileo wrote what that refined the scientific method?
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Two New Sciences
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Galileo formulated the law of what?
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Inertia
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Galileo designed what to see the universe?
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Telescope
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Galileo worked for what family?
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Medici’s of Tuscany
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Who allowed him to write on worldly system but could not judge which one actually existed?
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Pope Urban VIII
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Galileo wrote what that compared the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system?
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Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World (1632)
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When was Galileo tried for heresy by the Inquisition?
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1633
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Newton wrote what?
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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687)
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Who was an English politician and writer?
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Francis Bacon
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What theory did Bacon develop?
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Theory of empiricism
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Empirical knowledge would make nations what?
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Rich and powerful
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Who fought in the Thirty Years War and had a vision - correspondence between algebra and geometry, spatial relationships and equations?
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René Descartes
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René Descartes believed doubted all that could be what?
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Doubted
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Reduced all matter to spiritual and physical describes what view?
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Cartesian Dualism
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Descartes developed the idea of what? - use principles to ascertain laws
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Deductive reasoning
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Who quoted "cogito ergo sum"?
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René Descartes
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Medieval philosophy separated from religion
Universities established departments of astronomy, mathematics, and physics Renaissance thinkers recovered many of the classical thinkers Patronage Better instruments Reason are causes of what? |
The Scientific Revolution
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