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Scientific Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scientific Revolution | the process that established the new view of the universe |
| The Scientific Revolution was not rapid, instead it was... | a complex movement with false starts and brilliant people |
| Where did people study and work in laboratories? | Poland, Italy, Denmark, France, Bohemia, and Great Britain |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) | Polish priest and astronomer. Published "The Revoultions of the Heavenly Spheres". |
| THe Ptolemaic Systems | the basis of which mathematical calculations relationg to astronomy were made |
| Dante's Divine Comedy | works that told of astronomy dealing with movement and rest |
| What was Copernicus's opinion on the Ptolemaic picture? | he challenged it i a conservative manner |
| Who was more accurate? Copernicus of Ptolemy? | Neither was more accurate than the other |
| Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) | Danish astronomer who took a major step toward the "sun-centered system" idea |
| What did Brahe do to persue his theory? | he constructed scietific instruments to make observations of the planets |
| Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) | Brahe's assistant, took possesion of Brahe's tables after his death. A convinced Coppernican. Published "The New Astronomy" |
| What did Kepler discover? | in order to keep the sun at the center of the solar system, he must abandon the circular components of Copernicus's model |
| Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | turned a telescope on the heavens; observed Jupiter |
| What happened to Galilei in 1610? | left the University for Florence and became the philosopher and mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a Medici |
| Galileo's ideas and his flair for self-advertisement led him to have problems with what? | the Roman Catholic Church |
| Aspects of the world including color, beauty, and taste were described in terms of what? | mathematical relationships amoung quatities |
| What question perplexed 17th century scientists? | How do the planets and heavenly bodies move in an orderly fashion? |
| Englishman Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | addressed planetary motion and established a basis for physics that endured for over two centuries |
| The mathematical priciples of Natural Philosophy? | 1687, published by Newton |
| In addition to being a math genius, Newton... | upheld importance of empirical data and observations |
| Rene Descartes | French philosopher that Newton believed included insufficient guards against error |
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