Unit 4 - scientific method

who is the father of the scientific method?

• isaac newton

• galileo

• francis bacon

• ptolemy

earth is the center of the universe

• theory of relativity

• big bang theory

• cell theory

• geocentric theory

created the geocentric theory, believed earth was an unmoving object at the center of the universe, everything revolved around the earth

• copernicus

• ptolemy

• galileo

• kepler

the sun is the center of the universe

• evolution theory

• big bang theory

• heliocentric theory

• geocentric theory

discovered heliocentric theory, helped stimulate the scientific revolution, claim angers Protestants and Catholics bc humans are no longer the center of the universe

• copernicus

• galileo

• ptolemy

• kepler

he invents the telescope and discovers all objects accelerate at a fixed and predictable rate, supports copernicus' theory

• isaac newton

• galileo

• kepler

• copernicus

proves heliocentric theory, determines planets rotate around sun in elliptical orbits, proposed law of planetary motion in 1609

• kepler

• francis bacon

• isaac newton

• galileo

publishes a book on findings of many people, could prove planets moved around sun, but now how the way they moved, proposed law of universal gravitation

• kepler

• ptolemy

• rene descartes

• isaac newton

linked algebra and geometry, prove by reason, "I think therefore I am"

• jean-jaques rosseau

• rene descartes

• thomas hobbe

• john locke