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Scientific Revolution Inquiry Questions
General: To what extent was the scientific revolution a force for change in European society?
Specific: How did Galileo fit into the story of continuity and change evolving out of the Renaissance?
CHY 4U
DAY 1
Origins of Scientific Revolution Partly from the Renaissance
new discoveries about blood pressure, classification, calculus, anatomy, circulation, linear perspective, weapons
Ideas don’t have to fit preconceived notions of the universe (sound like humanism?)
Challenge to tradition
The ‘Ologies’ as Opposed to Theology Epistemology
theory of knowledge as a method of organizing ideas
Cosmology theory of the universe
New: The Scientific Method
Observation Experiment
Rather than… Think back to Renaissance slide on Leonardo Da Vinci. Think about information fitting into worldviews.
View video clip from The Medicis.
Geocentric Model of the Solar System
The Geocentric Paradigm, Philosophy: Chinese/Japanese 350, 2006.
http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/Asia350/ptolemy.html (Feb. 21, 2013).
Geocentrism: Sacred or Secular? Old View of the Universe
based on Aristotle and Ptolemy spheres revolve around earth which doesn’t move heavenly bodies attached to spheres 10 spheres, highest is the home of God perfect circular motion of spheres humans at centre, special relationship with God
Heliocentric Model
NASA Earth Observatory. Feature Article: Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea that Launched the Scientific Revolution. 2009.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/ (Sept. 6, 2010).
Copernicus’s On the Revolutions…
Rare Book Library at the University of Sydney. Origins of Modernity Online Exhibition: Cosmology and Astronomy – Copernicus.
2002. http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/copernicus.html (Sept. 6, 2010).
Brahe’s Universe and Uranibourg Observatory
Rice University. Galileo Project: Science – Tycho Brahe, Tychonic Universe. 2003.
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html (Sept. 6, 2010); Long, Tony. Wired. August 8, 1576: Brahe’s Palatial Gateway to the Heavens. 2007. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0808 (Sept. 15, 2010).
Kepler Used Brahe’s Data
Elliptical orbits of planet
PBS Online/WNET New York. Stephen Hawking’s Universe. N.d. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/kepler.html (Sept.
15, 2010).
Galileo’s Telescope
Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science. Multimedia Catalogue. 2010.
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=405001 (Sept. 6, 2010).
Phases of Venus, 1623
International Year of Astronomy 2009. Graphic Description of Venus Phases. 2009.
http://www.astronomy2009.org/resources/multimedia/images/detail/galileo_12/ (Sept. 6, 2010).
Moons of Jupiter, 1610
NASA. Solar System Exploration – Galileo’s Journal. 2008. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=7303 (Sept. 6,
2010).
Galileo’s Dialogo, 1632
Library of Congress – European Collections. 2005 Science and Technology. http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/guide/science.html (Sept. 15,
2010).
Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus discussing the universe
Day 1 Homework:
Fill in Scientific Revolution organizer in handouts using pages 71-73.
DAY 2Really this is only half a period.
Why did Galileo Get in So Much Trouble in 1633? See “Modern History Sourcebook: The Crime
of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633” PSD in handouts. Identify biased language.
What was he accused of?
Explain why he faced such serious consequences in 1633.
See “Galileo’s Context” in handouts.
HTC Journal
Conclusions on the inquiry questions? General: To what extent was the scientific
revolution a force for change in European society?
Specific: How does Galileo fit into the story of continuity and change evolving out of the Renaissance?
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Day 2 HW (after Hobbes and Locke lesson) Do your Hobbes and Locke note-taking on
pages 81-83.