Unit 5: Intellectual Influencers (SSWH13 a)

Unit 5: Age of Enlightenment & Revolution

by Aulana Sutherland

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish scientist

Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist

Multiple Choice

Why was Galileo punished by the Holy Catholic Church?

• He said that Earth was not the center of the universe.

• He said that they should no longer be in charge.

• He said that the clergy was not telling the truth about the Bible.

Multiple Choice

Where did Copernicus and Galileo believe that a person's knowledge should come from?

• The Bible (Pope and the Clergy)

• Born with it your knowledge

• observation & experimentation

Johannes Kepler, Danish mathematician

Isaac Newton, English scientist

Multiple Choice

How were Kepler and Newton similar in their thinking?

• Both believed that the sun had spots.

• Both discovered that outer space travel was possible.

• Both believed that the sun was the center of the universe.

Multiple Choice

Who is responsible for writing both Principia and Optick?

• Newton

• Kepler

• Galilei

​The outcome of these scientific findings

• educated Europeans no longer believed the universe was being held in place and order by God.

• abandon ancient views of the universe and long-standing church doctrine

• workings of physics and new understandings brought about by the

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Scientific Revolution

SSWH13 Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the

world view of Europeans from the sixteenth century CE/AD to the late eighteenth century CE/AD.​

(a) I can explain the scientific contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton and how these ideas changed the European worldview.