Scientific Revolution
The sun is the Center!
Introduction
Hello. Our names are Kyle and Nevin and we are going to be making a series of portfolio's that will be describing each of the time periods we are studying. The portfolio's are all going to be talking about the leaders and/or important people of the time period we are studying.
Continuity and Change
In The scientific revolution there were many things discovered that were never discovered before. like the sun is the center of the universe and the earth orbits it. Many people got good educations and thought of things that were never thought of before. Bacon thought of the scientific method and changed science forever. Locke protested for freedom because kinds and churches ruled everything but wanted equality.
The Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution changed the world into what it is today and without it we would be no where. All the technology used to day was invented by people in different ways. If people didn't discover new things we wouldn't be here today but with nothing but rocks and sticks so thank people for what they did.
John Locke
(1632-1704) He is often regarded as the founder of a school. He was also influential in the areas of theology, religious toleration, and educational theory. He offered an empiricist theory according to which we acquire ideas through our experience of the world. Locke earned a place at Christ Church, Oxford. His major work in this field was The Reasonableness of Christianity published anonymously in 1695. According to Locke, ideas are the fundamental units of mental content and so play an integral role in his explanation of the human mind and his account of our knowledge. He died on 28 October 1704 while Damaris Masham was reading him the Psalms.
Galileo Galilei
Born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy.He also constructed a telescope and supported the Copernican theory, which supports a sun-centered solar system. Galileo was accused twice of heresy by the church for his beliefs, and wrote books on his ideas. In 1604, Galileo published The Operations of the Geometrical and Military Compass. He also constructed a hydrostatic balance for measuring small objects. In July 1609, Galileo learned about a simple telescope built by Dutch eyeglass makers, and he soon developed one of his own. He was convicted of heresy and spent his remaining years under house arrest.
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561 in London, England. Bacon took up Aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry. In 1603, three years before he married heiress Alice Barnham, Bacon was knighted upon James I's ascension to the British throne. He strove to create a new outline for the sciences, with a focus on empirical scientific methods—methods that depended on tangible proof. Bacon's new scientific method involved gathering data, prudently analyzing it and performing experiments to observe nature's truths in an organized way.Bacon himself claimed that his empirical scientific method would spark a light in nature that would "eventually disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the universe.
Conclusion
Thats it for this section. Stay tuned for next week we will be talking about the leaders of the French Revolution. Thank You.
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