Scientific Revolution

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Scientific Revolution

• 1540-1700

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Humanisms influence

• Scholars return to Greek ideas
• Aristotle (384BC-322BC) observe the world
  carefully and draw logical conclusions
• Ptolemy (90 AD-163AD) studied skies, recorded
  observationsbest maps of his time
• Both were rationalists people look at world in a
  reasonable and logical way
• Humanist arts/writers concerned w/ natural world
  developed Scientific Rev.

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Nicolas Copernicus (Polish, 1473-1543)

• Founder of modern astronomy
• Believed earth revolved around sun
• Challenged by scholars and church

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Andreas Vesalius (Netherlands, 1514-1564)

• Physician and anatomist
• Established that scientific knowledge is found by
  observing nature, not reading ancient books

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Galileo Galilei (Italian, 1564-1642)

• Considered ONE of the most influential scientist
  in European history
• Law of inertia
• Invention of telescope
• Astronomical observations
• Proved Copernican hypothesis
• Perfected scientific method

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William Harvey (English, 1578 1657)

• Doctor and teacher
• First to correctly describe and prove how blood
  circulates through body and heart

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Sir Isaac Newton (English, 1643-1727)

• Considered THE most influential scientist in
  European history
• Increased understanding of motion, gravity, heat,
  and light (created calculus, wrote Principia
  Mathematica)