WH9 Chapter 6 Tre Study Guide

In the Middle Ages, the earth-centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe

• Scientific Revolution

• heliocentric theory

• geocentric theory

• scientific method

Major changes in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs

• Scientific Revolution

• scientific method

• Reformation

• Enlightenment

the idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun

• geocentric theory

• scientific method

• Scientif Revolution

• heliocentric theory

Italian scientist

Built on new theories about astronomy

Built his own telescope and studied the heavens 1609

Published a book Starry Messenger

Announced that Jupiter had four moons and the sun had dark spots, the moon had a rough, uneven surface - shattered Aristotle’s theory that the moon and the stars were made of a pure, perfect substance

• Johannes Kepler

• Robert Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses

• Scientifc Revolution

• scientific method

• Englightenment

• Reformation

English Scientist

Studied mathematics and physics at Cambridge University

Great discovery - the same force ruled motion of the planets and all matter on earth was in space

Law of universal gravitation - every object in the universe attracts every other object

Published The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

• Robert Boyle

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Rene Descartes

Age of Reason

18th century movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society

• Enlightenemnt

• social contract

• John Locke

• philosophe

The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government

• Enlightenment

• Social Contract

• philosophe

• Johne Locke

One group of social thinkers in france during the Enlightenment

• Enlightenemnt

• Social Contract

• philosophe

• Johne Locke

Philosopher who wrote about government

Believed people have three natural rights: life, liberty, and property

Purpose of government was to protect these rights

• John Locke

• Voltiare

• Montesquieu

• Mary Wollstonecraft