The Scientific Revolution
By: Amariah Celestine
WHAT WAS THE CHANGE????
WHO WERE THE PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHANGE?
People in The middle Ages
They believed that the earth was in the center and the planets orbited around it in a circular motion.
Nicolaus Copernicus
He developed the Heliocentric model of the universe which states that the sun is in the center, and the Earth revolves around it. Despite his Calculations, many scholars disagree with his theories and continue to believe in the geocentric model proposed by the Greek about 1500 years earlier.
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler/ Galileo Galiei
1) Planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun
2) Planets move more quickly as they approach the sun
3) The time it takes a planet to orbit the sun, is its exact distance from the sun.
Galileo was an Italian math professor who lived to prove Aristotle's theories about life wrong.
* found objects accelerate at a predictable and fixed rate
* proved that heavy objects fall at the same rate as lighter ones
* Galileo made improvements to the telescope and was the first to improve it enough to use it to observe the sky.
*** Church did not agree with his observations and sentenced him to life on house arrest.
HOW DID THE CHANGE IMPACT SOCIETY AT THE TIME
Impact
Scientific Revolution ushered in a new way of thinking, including the establishment of the Scientific Method. This method, which is actually a three step process ('Stop. Look. Listen'), became crucial to the efforts of intellectuals, European and otherwise, to discover more about the world around them. With these new tools at their disposal, European intellectuals were able to unlock the secrets of the nature, as well as the very universe itself. Among the most notable of the European intellectuals during the Scientific Revolution were Galileo, whose discoveries regarding our solar system still hold true today