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The Old School:Ancient Science

The ancient scientists arenatural philosophers...

Aristotle

4th Century BCE Greece

Theory of Falling Objects

Foundation of ancient and medieval science

Ptolemy

2nd Century Greece

Almagest

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The Old School:Medieval Science

What develops as science?

Alchemy

Witchcraft

Astrology

St. Thomas Aquinas

1225-1274 - Italy

Summa Theologica

Causes of theScientific Revolution

The Medieval University system

The Renaissance

The Age of Discovery

Evolution of Scientific Methodology

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The Major Question: What is the nature of the

universe?

Geocentricvs.

Heliocentric

Nicholas Copernicus

1473-1543 - Poland

Concerning the REvolutions of the Celestial Spheres

Pope Paul III

“...the book nobody read”

Tycho Brahe

1546-1601 - the Netherlands

The Dream

Johannes Kepler

157101630 - Germany

Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motion

Galileo Galilei

1564-1642 - Tuscan Region of Italy

Revisiting The Theory of Falling Objects

Starry Messenger

Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems

Introducing to the world... Simplico!

The Trial of Galileo

Pope Urban VIII

Sir Isaac Newton

1642-1727 - England

“Lucasian Professor” at Cambridge University

Principia

Newton’s Three Laws of Motion

The Law of Inertia

Fundamental Law of Dynamics

Law of Reciprocal Actions

Major Question: What is the best way to study

science?

Empiricism

Francis Bacon

1561-1626 - England

Inductive reasoning

Inductive Reasoningvs.

Deductive Reasoning

Rene Descartes

1596-1650 - France

Discourse on Method

“I think, therefore I am...”

Scientific Method

Major Question:How should we best treat

human sickness?

Galen

2nd Century - Greece

Studied Hippocrates

Four bodily humours

Medicine and the Catholic Church

Monastic movement = healers

Andreas Vesalius

1514-1564 - Belgium

On the Fabric of the Human Body!

William Harvey

1578-1657 - England

An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals