The Scientific Revolution

What is 'reason'?

• Forming opinions based on emotional reactions

• Using logic and evidence to form thoughts and solve problems

• Accepting what we are taught without question

• Forming opinions and sticking to them no matter what

What's a THEORY?

• A kind of man-eating bird found in Australia and Illinois

• Evidence that something happened or didn't happen

• A statement of fact that is then tested by experiment

• An explanation for how or why something happens.

Who said that the universe revolves around the Earth?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Mrs. Terry

The idea of a universe that revolves around the Earth is called:

• geocentric

• eccentric

• heliocentric

• Earthocentric

The idea that the solar system revolves around the sun is called:

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• sunocentric

• eccentric

What DOES our solar system revolve around?

• Earth

• Jupiter

• the sun

• a tiny old Italian woman in California

The ancient Greeks and Romans had ideas about how the universe worked, but they didn't:

• really care very much

• write any of them down

• share the ideas with each other

• perform experiments

On what did ancient Greeks and Romans base their ideas of how the universe worked:

• common sense

• math

• experiments

• they just rolled some dice

How did that work out for the Greeks and Romans, just trying to use common sense?

• It led to a lot of incorrect ideas.

• It worked great; they had it all figured out.

• They did not use common sense.

• No one knows.

In the 1500s, Europeans figured out that scientists had to use mathematics and experiments to make advances. This realization was called:

• The Enlightenment

• The Scientific Revolution.

• The Great Realization.

• The Big Bang.