Scientific Revolution

Which statements best define the word revolution?

• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.

• a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people's ideas about it.

• an instance of revolving.

• a peroid of great stability and little change.

The Scientific Method is...

• the way scientists make problems and ask questions.

• the way scientists answer questions and solve problems.

• the way scientists never solve problem.s

The heliocentric theory claimed that

• the earth was the center of the solar system.

• the moon was the center of the solar system.

• the sun was the center of the solar system.

Do you know what Galileo invented?

• the telescope

• the telegram

• the telephone

• the television

Galileo was accused by the Catholic Church of being a heretic. What does that mean?

• He supported Church teachings.

• He went against Church teachings publically. Teaching new ideas.

• He disagreed with the Church but never publically.

Sir Isaac Newton is famous for...

• discovering gravity.

• discovering the atom.

• creating the period table.

The __________ was a movement that changed how people viewed the physical universe?

• Enlightenment

• Neolithic Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

________ first came up with the idea that the sun was the center of the universe.

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Newton

Who may not be happy with the Heliocentric (Sun centered) view of the solar system?

• Monarchs

• Nobles

• Roman Catholic Church

• Peasants

The discoveries of astronomers like Copernicus and Galileo

• established that the universe was sun-centered, or heliocentric.

• reinforced most of the traditional teachings of philosophers and the Church.

• were supported by most scientists of the time.

• proved that ancient philosophers, like Ptolemy, were correct in their views of how the universe works.