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The Scientific Revolution
- -1543-1795
- -changed the way Europeans viewed the world
- -new questions being asked/old traditions being questioned
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Ptolemy
- -"Geocentric Theory"= the earth is the center of the universe
- -helped 16th century people to understand the universe
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Aristotle
-it is made up of "Earth, Air, & Fire"
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True or False
The theories of Ptolemy & Aristotle were supported by the church?
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- the church accepted these men's theories and they werte not challenged till Nicholas Copernicus
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Nicholas Copernicus
- -"The Heliocentric Theory"
- -said that the sun is the center of the universe and everything else moves around it in orbit
- -challenged the theories of the church -both Catholic & Protestant Church denounced this
- -Martin Luther says he is a fool
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Tycho Brahe
- -tries to find a compromise between Copernicus & Poltemy
- -"the moon and sun revlove around the earth & every other planet revolves around the Earth"
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Johannes Kelper
-says plantes revolve around the sun in an elliptical rather than a circular orbit
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Galileo Galilei
- -agreed w/ "Heliocentric Theory"
- -says you cannot look to Bible for things related to science = church orders him to recant= excommunicated
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Sir Issac Newton
- -called greatest person of Scientific Revolution
- -"Principa"= answers question of gravity
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Sir Francis Bacon
- -came up with "Scientific Theory"
- -aka scientific method
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Rene Descartes
- -came up with deductive reasoning (general to specific)
- -"Cogito Ergo Sum" "I think, therefore I am"
- -proving the existance of God
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True or False
Most fields of medicine came about b/c of Scientific Revolution?
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- many men started to ask questions about the human body
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Andreas Ve Sailus
-wrote a textbook about human anatomy by dissecting a body
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William Harvey
demonstrated how the heart pumps blood through the body
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True or False
Because of the new Scientific knowledge, religious beliefs started to suffer?
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- men started discovering things= question belief of God
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Benedict de Spinoza
- -"God is not simply the creator of the universe, he IS the universe"
- -panthesim-
- God is everythere
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Blaze Pascal
- -wanted to keep SCIENCE & CHRISTIANITY together
- -"Christian religion not contrary to reason"
- -"Pensees"=reason can only take you so far= God is experienced be the heart= faith is the final step
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Cervantes
- -Spanish writer
- -"Don Quioxte"= makes a funny comedy about chivalry
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William Shakespeare
-wrote about all aspects of life-best work of the time-uses engilsh language in a way never before known
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European Society (just an overall description, not a question)
- -polulation grows
- -families glue of society-newborn had 1 in 4 chance of survival-few adults lived long enough to see their grandchildren
- -witchcraft was now in full swing-people drank beer & wine-ate bread-ate sweets-best diet
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