Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Geocentric Theory

• Sun is at the center and the Earth orbits around it

• Earth is at the center and Sun orbits around it

Heliocentric Theory

• Sun is at the center and the Earth orbits around it

• Earth is at the center and Sun orbits around it

Period in the late 1500s where Europeans began to challenge traditional authorities, posed new theories about the natural world, and developed procedures to test those theories

• Reformation

• Age of Exploration

• Scientific Revolution

• American Revolution

What traditional authorities did the Scientific Revolution encourage people to challenge?

• Encyclopedias

• Kings and Queens

• Catholic Church and Greco-Roman scholars

• Doctors

What historical era helped spark the Scientific Revolution?

• Reformation

• Age of Exploration

• Middle Ages

• Dark Ages

built the first telescope, discovered the Milky Way was made up of stars

• William Harvey

• Galileo

• Descartes

• Copernicus

came up with the heliocentric theory

• William Harvey

• Galileo

• Descartes

• Copernicus

Described how blood and the circulatory system functioned

• William Harvey

• Galileo

• Descartes

• Copernicus

everything should be doubted until it can be proven by reason

• William Harvey

• Galileo

• Descartes

• Copernicus

discovered law which describes how temperature, volume, and pressure affect gasses

• Robert Boyle

• Francis Bacon

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton