The Scientific Revolution
By: Madison Lee
The Change
People involved
Was implying.
Kepler: professionally oriented towards theology at the start of his career; he agreed with Copernicus; he created 3 laws of planetary motion
Galileo: researched the stars and moon that supported Copernicus' ideas; made improvement to the telescope; found objects accelerate at a predictable and a fixed rate; proved heavy objects fall at the same rate as lighter ones; research angered the Church, so they told him to stop but he didn't; the Church made him sign a comfession saying that the heliocentric theory was illegitimate; the Church threatened to toruture to torture him if he didn't; he then went under "house arrest".
Newton: mathematician; created 3 laws of motion; law of universal fravity ; Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosiphy
Impact on society at the time
Impact on society today
Mathematician, Astronomer, Scientist (1473–1543)
Portrait of Galileo Galilei
1689 portrait of Isaac Newton (age 46).
Quotes
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is Truth." -Newton