Scientific Revolution
Zafyre S. 5th Period
What was the change?
- The Scientific Revolution is the conceptual, methodological, and instututional aproaches to the natural world that are recognizably like those of modern science.
- It is the revolution in though and practice that brought about modrn science.
- It is the multitude of historical phenomena, natural philosophy, and process.
Who are the people associated with the change?
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was an Italian scientist, he was a very intelligent astronomer, mathematician, and scientist. He studied the stars and the moon. To do this, he invented the telescope. he is one of the most important of the founding fathers of modern physics. Additionally, he discovvered that Jupiter had its own moons. He also formulated the law inertia.
Issac Newton
Sir Issac newton came up with the thoery of gravity. He came up with a set of laws called Newton's Laws of Motion. These laws are about the relations betwee the forces acting on the body and the motion of the body. The first law basically states that a moving object will stays in motion until an oppsing force stops it. His second law staes that force is equal to momentum times acceleration. The third law states that when two bodies are interact they apply force to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. Newton's first law appeared in his famous book "Principia."
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolause was a Polish astronomer who prposed that plantes orbit (turn) not only around the sun but on a fixed axis.
Before Nicolaus, everyone thought that the earth was the center of the universe and that all other planets and the sun revolve around it. He came up with the idea that the sun is the center and that all the other planets revolve around the sun. This is called heliocentric, or sun centered. Copernicus's theory had a very important consequece for future astronomers, like Galieo, Kepler, and Newton.