Scientific Revolution
World History
The Scientific Revolution was a revolution that involved Nicolaus Copernicus,Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler,Isaac Newton
Some of our top scientists
Nicalaus Copernicus
- Astronomer who argued against the geocentric theory
- Argued that the did not explain the movement of the sun,moon,and planets in the sky
Galileo Galilei
- Italian math professor who set out to prove Aristotle's theories about nature wrong
- Tested the pendulum theory, it was wrong
- Said that objects accelerate at a predictable and fixed rate
- Proved that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate
Johannes Kepler
- His work in astronomy further prove that that the Heliocentric theory was true
- Three Laws of Planetary Motion
- Planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun
- Planets move more rapidly as their orbits approach the sun
- The time is takes a planet to orbit the sun is proportional to its distance from the sun
Answer to Text #1
The change was that scientists figured out that the earth was not the center of the universe like everyone thought it was by using the teachings from Aristotle and Pltolmey to prove the Sun was the center not the Earth .Other things like Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy .Also Galileo Galilei used the telescope to study the sun and discovered four of Jupiter's moons which eventually were named after him.
Answer to Text #2
The scientist that were associated with the Scientific Revolution were Nicolaus Copernicus who argued against the geocentric theory,Johannes Kepler further proved that Heliocentric theory,Galileo Galilei who proved that Aristotle's were wrong,and Isaac Newton who developed the Law of Universal Gravitation and the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Answer to Text #3
People were most likely surprised at the discovery since the fact of new discoverys are being made during this time period and these discoverys would still be used to this day
Answer to Test #4
The impact that was made was that these things eventually ended up putting people on the Moon and many more things like having a little robot that we put on mars or like how we have satellites in space to monitor things and the creation of NASA and other space companys around the world