Age of Revolutions

A Revolution?What is a revolution?

A sudden or extreme changeHow does a revolution begin?

Many different waysTypically starts with one idea that is

different from the normal

Scientific RevolutionThe Basics

What’s the Big Deal?Scientific Revolution will change the

way people viewed the world around them

Began to question old beliefs

The Scientific Revolution: Before

Before Scientific Revolution, knowledge often based on superstition and old beliefs

Church stated that all old beliefs were truth

Disagreeing with the Church was heresy and could lead to death

The Scientific Revolution: The BeginningGeocentric Theory

Earth is center of the universeGod created the Earth and humans

therefore it is the centerCopernicus develops the Heliocentric

TheoryIdea that the sun was the center of the

universe and not EarthWill not publish ideas until end of his lifeWhy?

Scared of punishment of Church

The Theories that Started it AllGeocentric Theory Heliocentric Theory

The Scientific Revolution: BeginningsGalileo

Confirms Copernicus’s theoryChurch puts him on trial – Galileo says

he made it all up and stays on house arrest the rest of his life

Too late – ideas are already spreading and making more people think

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The Scientific Revolution: It StartsOpposite of basing ideas on belief

and superstition is using reasonKnowledge will now be based on

reasonUsing logic and observation to figure

something out

The Scientific Revolution: It StartsFrancis Bacon

Develops the Scientific Method – a logical method to gather information

5 Steps in Scientific Method1. Question2. Hypothesis3. Test 4. Evaluate and Analyze5. Conclusion

More Important People of Scientific RevolutionIsaac Newton – discovered Laws of

Gravity and Laws of MotionHarvey – discovered circulation of the

blood, studied the human bodyAnton van Leeuwenhoek – used a

microscope to observe bacteria and red blood cells

Edward Jenner – created a vaccine for smallpox

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