Post on 14-Jan-2016
Scientific Revolution
The phrase became a fundamental element of Western Philosophy as it was perceived to form a foundation for all knowledge.
While other knowledge could be a figment of imagination, deception or mistake, the very act ..thinking…is proof of the reality of one's own existence, or at least that of one's thought.
Cogito ergo sum
I think, therefore, I am
Rene DescartesRene DescartesHuman ReasoningHuman Reasoning
Scientific RevolutionScientific RevolutionNicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
Monk, mathematician, and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
Due to the failure of PtolemyPtolemy's model of the universe, Copernicus decided that he could achieve his goal only through a heliocentricheliocentric model.
However, mathematically, it did not work….
Copernicus came to be seen as
The initiator of the Scientific RevolutionThe initiator of the Scientific Revolution.
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Johannes Kepler– Elliptical Laws
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GalileoGalileo• Observation with a TELESCOPE Observation with a TELESCOPE
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GalileoGalileo• InquisitionInquisition
– Recants….but says on his way out…Recants….but says on his way out…”yet, it (earth) does move””yet, it (earth) does move”
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Newton
• Theory “why” planets move– Law of Gravity
Scientific Method
Francis BaconExperimentation and Observation
State the Problem
Scientific Method
State the Problem
Gather information
Scientific Method
State the Problem
Gather information
Form a Hypothesis
Scientific Method
State the Problem
Gather information
Form a Hypothesis
Experiment
Scientific Method
State the Problem
Gather information
Form a Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze the Data
Scientific Method
State the Problem
Gather information
Form a Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze the Data
State conclusion
Scientific Method
State the Problem
Gather information
Form a Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze the Data
State conclusion
Repeat
Scientific Method
17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966)
Belgium
Priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain
The first to propose the theory of the expansion theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble… two years before Hubble's article
Lemaître proposed (what became known as) the Big Bang theory- Big Bang theory- the origin of the Universe, ‘primeval atom‘ or God’s Atomprimeval atom‘ or God’s Atom
Honors class
Monseigneur Georges LemaitreMonseigneur Georges Lemaitre
My contention is that you know NOTHING!
Until you research it, study it , understand it…
How easily can one be manipulated if you only go by what you have been told?
Is the world really spherical or flat? Prove it…
Is the sun really the center of our galaxy? Prove it…
Social Studies Class: How did you feel when you were confronted with ideas that went against everything you have ever been taught? Did you want to react as they did against Galileo? Or were you willing to just sit and take notes to get an “A” on the test?