Scientific Revolution

Review of People and Ideas

Scientific Revolution Period in the 1600s in which people

began to question old ideas.

Who discovered cells in living matter using a simple microscope?

Anton Leeuwenhoek

Who developed the Universal Law of Gravitation?

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton helped develop this branch of mathematics.

Calculus

Who developed the scientific method, stressing experimentation and observation?

Francis Bacon

Who stressed human reasoning as the best way to gain understanding and said, “I think, therefore I am?”

What scientists investigated the relation between Earth and the other planets?

Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler & Galileo Galilei

Scientists who was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth was the center of the universe (heliocentric or sun-centered model of the universe).

Nicolas Copernicus

Astronomer who showed that the planets move around the sun in oval orbits.

Johannes Kepler

Scientist who was tried and convicted of heresy by the Inquisition.

Galileo

Court established by Catholic Church to try heretics.

Inquisition

Greek philosopher whose ideas were rediscovered during the Renaissance. He taught that man emphasized the importance of mathematics and believed that man should look beyond appearances to learn nature’s truths.

Plato

Systematic process for gathering and analyzing evidence.

Scientific method

Scientist who published the first accurate and detailed study of human anatomy.

Andreas Vasalius

Physician who developed new surgical techniques, introduced the use of artificial limbs and invented new scientific instruments.

Ambiose Pare

English scholar who described the circulation of blood for the first time.

William Harvey

Chemistry was called this in medieval times.

Alchemy

English chemist who opened the way to modern chemical analysis of the composition of matter.

Robert Boyle