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17 Cards in this Set
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Scientific Revolution
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-Transformation of thinking that occurred in 1500’s and 1600’s
-New system of investigation based on experiments |
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Copernicus
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•A 1500’s
Polish ... Developed the Heliocentric theory (sun as center of universe) wrote On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. |
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Scientific Method
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-Brought about because of the scientific revolution
•to verify the results of repeatable experiments |
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Johannes Kepler
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mathematician in the late 1500’s& early 1600’s who tested Copernius’s heliocentric theory with mathematics & figured out that planets’ orbits were ovals, not circles like Copernicus thought.
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Galileo
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Italian mathematician & astronomer... built a telescope and proved the heliocentric theory. This was against church teaching & the church made him recant
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Andreas Vesalius
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a Flemish scientist who pioneered the study of anatomy (human body)
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William Harvey
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English doctor who used lab experiments to figure out how the heart and blood circulation work.
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Geocentric theory
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theory that the Earth is the center of the universe (Ptolemy believed this)
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Rene Descartes
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(1596 – 1650): French philosopher & scientist … wrote Discourse on
Method…everything has to be proved according to scientific reasoning. "I think therefore I am." |
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Francis Bacon
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philosopher theories can only come from observation and
repeatable experiments |
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Leewenhoek
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discovered bacteria with a microscope
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age of enlightenment
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1700’s ... when the scientific point of view dominated European thought
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Liebnitz
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developed calculus
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Robert Hooke
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identified cells
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Robert Boyle
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developed chemistry
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Joseph Priestley
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discovered the element oxygen
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Antoine Lavoisier
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demonstrated conservation of matter
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