1 Scientific Revolution

Who was Galileo?

• An ancient Greek doctor whose writings about the human body became the basis for medical knowledge in the Middle Ages

• He discovered the Laws of Planetary Motion which confirmed that planets have an oval shaped orbit around the sun

• Nicknamed the father of experimental design he urged that mathematics and experimentation be used to study the laws of nature

• Known as the father of microbiology, he used a microscope to discover that a single drop of water can contain hundreds of microorganisms

Who was Johannes Kepler?

• An ancient Greek doctor whose writings about the human body became the basis for medical knowledge in the Middle Ages

• He discovered the Laws of Planetary Motion which confirmed that planets have an oval shaped orbit around the sun

• Known as the father of microbiology, he used a microscope to discover that a single drop of water can contain hundreds of microorganisms

• He was a mathematician and scientist who discovered laws of motion, the law of gravity, and the law of inertia.

Who was Sir Isaac Newton?

• He discovered the Laws of Planetary Motion which confirmed that planets have an oval shaped orbit around the sun

• Nicknamed the father of experimental design he urged that mathematics and experimentation be used to study the laws of nature

• Known as the father of microbiology, he used a microscope to discover that a single drop of water can contain hundreds of microorganisms

• He was a mathematician and scientist who discovered laws of motion, the law of gravity, and the law of inertia.

The Greek astronomer Ptolemy said that the Earth was the center of the universe

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It was found that gravity causes objects to fall to the Earth

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Scientists regarded many beliefs of the Middle Ages to be false

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A telescope was used to increase man's knowledge of the solar system

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People believed that objects moved because angels pushed them along

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People accepted as truth the teachings of the Catholic Church and writings of ancient scholars

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Who was Copernicus?

• Published Concerning the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres and said that the Earth was not the center of the universe

• An ancient Greek doctor whose writings about the human body became the basis for medical knowledge in the Middle Ages

• Nicknamed the father of experimental design he urged that mathematics and experimentation be used to study the laws of nature

• He was a mathematician and scientist who discovered laws of motion, the law of gravity, and the law of inertia.