The Scientific Revolution, Wall, 2 Flashcards
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| 286405860 | Ptolemaic system | - -1) planets evolve around the earth; 2) planets evolve around the sun - - - | 0 | |
| 286405861 | Geocentric | - -Belief that everything revolves around the Earth - - - | 1 | |
| 286405862 | Tycho Brahe | Influenced by Copernicus; Built observatory and collected data on the locations of stars and planets for over 20 years; His limited knowledge of mathematics prevented him from making much sense out of the data. | 2 | |
| 286405863 | Heliocentric | - -Theory that the sun is center of the universe - - - | 3 | |
| 286405864 | Rationalism | - -Belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge - - - | 4 | |
| 286405865 | Scientific Method | - -A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses - - - | 5 | |
| 286405866 | Scientific Revolution | - -When scientists began doing research in a new way using the scientific method -Era between 16th and 18th centuries - - | 6 | |
| 284794813 | Galileo | -Italian astronomer and mathematician -Was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries -(1564-1642) - - | 7 | |
| 284796485 | Francis Bacon | -English politician and writer -Advocated that new knowledge was acquired through an inductive reasoning process (using specific examples to prove or draw conclusion from a general point) called empiricism; rejected Medieval view of knowledge based on tradition, believed it's necessary to collect data, observe, and draw conclusions. - - -This was the foundation of the scientific method | 8 | |
| 284794814 | Isaac Newton | -English mathematician and scientist -Invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation, presented in Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple. | 9 | |
| 286405867 | Hypothesis | A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations | 10 | |
| 284796486 | Nicholas Copernicus | He believed in a heliocentric, or sun-centered, conception of the universe. He argued that the Sun was at the center of the universe. The planets revolved around the sun. | 11 | |
| 286405868 | René Descartes | ... | 12 | |
| 286405869 | Johannes Kepler | ... | 13 | |
| 286405870 | Zacharias Janssen | ... | 14 | |
| 286405871 | Anton van Leeuwenhoek | ... | 15 | |
| 286405872 | Evangelista Torricelli | ... | 16 | |
| 286405873 | Gabriel Fahrenheit | ... | 17 | |
| 286405874 | Anders Celsius | ... | 18 | |
| 286405875 | Andreas Vesalius | ... | 19 | |
| 286405876 | Edward Jenner | ... | 20 | |
| 286405877 | Robert Boyle | ... | 21 |