UNIT 5 REVIEW
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- NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
- PUBLISHED "ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY SPHERES IN 1543(seen as the start of the Scientific Revolution).
- SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
- A TIME, FROM CA. 1550-1700 WHEN THERE WAS A NEW EMPHASIS ON OBSERVATION AND REASON IN SCIENCE, RATHER THAN A RELIANCE ON TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE.
- WHY SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IMPORTANT?
- PEOPLE'S FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS OF THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE CHANGED MORE DRASTICALLY THAN AT ANY OTHER POINT IN HISTORY.
- HELIOCENTRIC SYSTEM
- SUN-CENTERED THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH WAS CLOSER TO ACCURATE, BUT STILL FLAWED.
- JOHANNES KEPLER
- (father of Modern Astronomy)A GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN, CONFIRMED THE HELIOCENTRIC THEORY WITH OBSERVATIONS., German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)
- WILLIAM HARVEY
- PUBLISHED "ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD"(1637).
- GEOCENTRIC SYSTEM
- EARTH-CENTERED MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE IN WHICH THE PLANETS ROTATED IN CRYSTAL SPHERES.
- FREDERICK THE GREAT
- RULER OF PRUSSIA, HAD THE BEST ARMY IN EUROPE
- GALILEO GALILEI
- BUILT A TELESCOPE AND WAS THE FIRST TO MAKE REGULAR OBSERVATIONS WITH IT.
- LOUIS XIV
- KNOWN AS THE SUN KING, RULED FOR 72YRS., BUILDING THE PALACE OF VERSIALLES.
- ISAAC NEWTON
- MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, DEFINED THE LAWS OF MOTION AND GRAVITY.