The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

Impact of the Scientific Revolution 1550-1800

Multiple Choice

What does rationalism mean?

Open Ended

Why is it important to analyze what you observe?

Three ideas, discoveries, or inventions that led up to the Scientific Revolution were:

• the idea of performing careful observations and accurate measurements to solve specific problems

• the invention of instruments such as the telescope and microscope

• the invention of the printing press, and the idea that mathematics was key to understanding workings of the universe

Open Ended

Which of the three discoveries or ideas in the past slide is in your opinion the one that had a strongest impact? Justify your answer fully.

Some mathematical inventions that played a major role in the Scientific Revolution were:

• decimal fractions

• logarithms

• algebra

Open Ended

Give an example of each of the three mathematical inventions mentioned before and the first evidence of each in time.

Open Ended

Why is it important to analyze what you observe? Justify your answer fully.

Open Ended

What did Francis Bacon believe was the purpose of the scientific method?

Bacon wanted the scientific method to lead to practical discoveries in industry, agriculture, and trade.

Open Ended

Mention 1 way in which you have used the steps of the scientific method and explain fully how it proved useful to you.

You will watch a video in order to answer the following questions:

• What are the three main problems that the world faces?

• Which was Descartes main purpose of study?

• What was his proposal when dealing with big problems?

• How was his focus contrary to the then "authority and tradition" based method of behaviour? What did he propose instead?

• “I think, therefore I am” is a famous statement by René Descartes. According to Descartes, who is responsible for finding out what is true? How?

René Descartes

• Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjWUrwvxs4&vl=es

Multiple Choice

“I think, therefore I am” is a famous statement by René Descartes. According to Descartes, who is responsible for finding out what is true?

• others around us

• the individual

• the government

• the priest

Multiple Choice

How was his focus contrary to the then "authority and tradition" based method of behaviour? What did he propose instead?

• reading and memorizing good thoughts

• listening to our elderlies

• learning from someone else's experience

• to experience and reasoning

Multiple Choice

What is one of the three main problems that the world faces?

• confusion

• how many children should one have

• how to find a good job

• politics

Multiple Choice

Which was Descartes main purpose of study?

• to help humans in the task of thinking

• to help humans in the task of duties

• to help humans in the task of survival

Multiple Choice

What was his proposal when dealing with big problems?

• that many individuals work on its solution

• two heads think better than one

• to break it into small understandable parts

• to always get help from someone else

Multiple Choice

Which was Descartes main purpose of study?

• to help humans in the task of thinking

• to help humans in the task of duties

• to help humans in the task of survival

Multiple Choice

Who was the greatest opposition to philosophers and scientists such as Descartes and Galileo?