Today

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Todays goal(s) and how it relates to your class
goal.
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The Scientific Revolution

• Background
• Humanism
• Question prevailing thought
• Find information for yourself

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The Scientific Revolution

• The Ptolemic view of the world
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)

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The Scientific Revolution

• Telescope invention
• Galileo Galilei
• Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World
  (1633)
• Galileos problems with the Christian Churches

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The Scientific Revolution

• GOAL CHECKUP
• How well have I worked to achieve my goal for
  todays class?
• What can I do for the remainder of the period to
  reach my goal(s) for today?

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The Scientific Revolution

• Sir Isaac Newton
• Born in 1642 same year that Galileo died.
• Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
  (1687).

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The Scientific Revolution

• The Scientific Method
• Developed by Galileo and Newton and perfected by
  others.
• It is a rigorous structure so that scientific
  findings were irrefutable

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The Scientific Revolution

• The Scientific Method
• Observe something
• Develop a hypothesis concerning why your
  observable situation occurs in nature.
• Experimentation of hypothesis
• Conclusion concerning hypothesis
• Repeat exact experiment several times in order to
  develop hypothesis into theory A theory is
  scientific fact.

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The Scientific Revolution

• Writing assignment
• Besides science class, what else can the
  scientific method be applied to as an educational
  technique? Explain several of your ideas.