CCEH#12 Scientific Revolution

What have been some of the bleak events of European History covered in the course thus far?

• Black Death

• 116 Years’ War

• 30 Years Wa

• Little Ice Age

• Atlantic Slave Trade

What revolution is responsible for the assumption that the disease burden, child mortality, and poverty will steadily decrease in our lifetimes.

• Scientific Revolution

• American Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

This is the idea that the earth is the center of the universe.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Ethnocentric

• Polycentric

This is the idea that the sun is the center of the universe.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Ethnocentric

• Polycentric

This Polish astronomer published On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres which noted problems with classical astronomical theory and determined that the universe was “heliocentric" that is, the sun, rather than the earth, was at the center.

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Giordano Bruno

• Johannes Kepler

Expanding on the work of this mentor this astronomer announced early in the seventeenth century that the orbits of the planets were elliptical—not perfectly circular.

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

• Giordano Bruno

• Galileo Galilei

This Italian astronomer made numerous contributions to science such as inventing the early thermometer, an improved telescope, and a slew of astronomical discoveries before being tried for heresy by the Catholic church for his work and teaching in the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.

• Galileo Galilei

• Francis Bacon

• René Descartes

• Garcia da Orta

This English doctor pronounced the heart to be a pump based on dissections he’d performed.

• William Harvey

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

• David Hume

This English politician was a proponent of, and developer of the scientific method and inductive reasoning.

• Francis Bacon

• William Harvey

• René Descartes

• Isaac Newton

This French philosopher and mathematican famously said who is the father of deductive reasoning famously saying “I think therefore I am”.

• René Descartes

• Garcia da Orta

• Louis XIV

• Giordano Bruno