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Scientific Method
Dependent on observation and experimentation
State the problem Gather information on the problem Form a hypothesis Experiment to test the hypothesis Record and analyze data State conclusion Repeat steps above
Copernicus (Polish)
1543 - published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Propose heliocentric (sun-centered) model of universe
Sun at center, 7 planets revolve around sun
Many people rejected his theories because they contradicted previous thinking
Knowledge and religious teaching based on classical thinkers
Galileo (Italian)
Invented first telescope
Observed four moons around Jupiter
Saw exactly how earth moved around the sun
People attacked his observations because they contradicted views about the world
Condemned by the Church because his finds challenged Christian teachers that heavens were fixed, unmoving and perfect
1633 - tried before the Inquisition
Ended up saying that the earth stood motionless in the center to avoid death
Bacon (English)
Rejected Aristotle's scientific assumption
Challenge scholarly traditions of the medieval universities
Stress experimentation and observation
Newton (English)
At 24, he discovered the theory to explain why planets moved
Discovered the idea of gravity
1887 - published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which explains the law of gravity
Helped developed Calculus
Scientific REvolution
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