Scientific Revolution

Agenda1. Bell Ringer: What is the impact of the English Bill of Rights?2. Absolutism Timeline Overview3. English Civil War Quiz4. Lecture: Scientific Revolution5. Chart of Scientific Revolutionary thinkers6. Discussion Activity, Trial of Galileo.7. Primary Document Analysis: Galileo8. Illustration: Conflict between Church and science

HW: Finish Primary Document and Illustration Activity

Scientific Revolution

• The natural world can be explained through observation and questioning accepted beliefs.

• Church had an issue with this…– If you can’t explain it, it’s

“God’s” way.

Heliocentric Theory• Geocentric- Earth is in the

middle. • Heliocentric- sun-centered

universe. • Copernicus – Used Greek

theory and astronomy to show planets revolve around the sun. – Orbits could not be

explained.– Did not publish until his death

for fear of ridicule. • Kepler- Laws govern

planetary motion. – Elliptical Orbits

Galileo• Law of gravity- a falling

object accelerates at a fixed rate.

• Supported the ideas of Copernicus with his observations in Astronomy.

• Church reacts negatively.– Galileo stood trial and was

forced to renounce his theory.

– Can’t stop the idea, and it spreads even though he is under house arrest.

Scientific Method• Logical procedure for

gathering and testing ideas.

• Francis Bacon believed that scientists could produce practical knowledge through observation.

• Experiment instead of abstract thought.

• Decartes method uses mathematics and logic. – “I think, therefore I am.”

Isaac Newton

• Perfected law of gravity.

• Universal Gravitation- Every object in the universe attracts every other object.

• Adds religion by claiming “God” was the clockmaker that set the world in motion.

Medicine

• Vesalius dissected human corpses.– Why would the church

have an issue with this?• William Harvey

discovered blood circulation through the heart.

• Edward Jenner introduced vaccination to eliminate smallpox.

Illustration Assignment

• Using no words, how would you illustrate the conflict between the Church and the Scientific Revolution? Illustrate this on a sheet of paper (I’m not looking for a Picasso, I’m looking for good, analytical thought)