Scientific Revolution

English scientist, Isaac Newton, built on the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo in the 1680s.

• True

• False

Goes to Italy and absorbs ideas

1. Earth's twofold motion

2. Heliocentric universe

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

a Danish mathematician tested and proved Copernicus’ idea using models and mathematics. He also discovered that planets orbit the sun, not in a circle, but in an oval-shaped ellipse.

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galileo

looked in his telescope and, for the first time, saw mountains and valleys on the moon, spots on the sun, rings around Saturn, and moons orbiting Jupiter. He thus further proved that not everything in the universe revolved around the earth.

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galileo

Who realized that the same force, gravity, that made objects fall to the earth also kept the planets in their orbits around the sun. He explained the laws of motion and developed mathematics to measure motion.

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galileo

Copernicus work initially received little notice

• True

• False

Kepler was a Historian, who used history to support his Ideas

• True

• False

Galileo challenges to the ancient worldview and church teachings was so upsetting that he was tried before the Inquisition and forced to recant his findings.

• True

• False