10.1 Scientific Revolution

Law of Universal Attraction

• Ptolemaic System

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Gravity

He developed laws of planetary motion

• Newton

• Copernicus

• Canvendish

• Kepler

Sun centered model of the universe

• Geocentric

• Gravity

• Heliocentric

• Elliptical

Egg-shaped

• Elliptical

• Gravity

• Kepler

• heliocentric

His observations suggested that planets had substance

• Copernicus

• Descartes

• Galileo

• Kepler

Rene Descartes believed in one absolute truth

• using the Bible to prove ideas

• his own existence

• the Ptolemaic system

• using Church authority to find truth

Inductive reasoning involved

• using Church authority to find truth

• using the bible to prove ideas

• proceeding from the particular to the general

• using ancient wisdom

Francis Bacon, who developed the scientific method, was a

• mathematician

• philospher

• scientist

• priest

The scientific method was all of the following EXCEPT

• reliant on the use of ancient authorities

• a system of procedure

• based on collecting and analyzing evidence

• crucial to the evolution of science

Rationalism is the belief that

• the human mind is divine

• matter matters

• the human mind is perfect

• reason is the chief source of knowledge