A time during which people began to rely more on logic than religion to explain phenomena in nature.

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Medieval Beliefs• Geocentricism- idea that the earth

is an immobile object in the middle of the solar system. This idea is supported by biblical scripture.

• Stars and the sun were also fixed objects that existed in a sphere beyond the earth.

• Galen believed that the human body consisted of the four humors (yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm) and that these existed in perfect balance.

• Many accepted Aristotle’s belief that the world consisted of four elements: earth, fire, water and air

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Introduction of new ideas• Europeans were introduced to

new ideas when they began to translate Muslim texts that they had discovered during trading expeditions and the Crusades.

• During the Renaissance, Europeans found many classical texts that had been buried and began to translate these.

• How might the Church feel about the introduction of new ideas? Why?

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Heliocentricism• Nicolaus Copernicus

introduced the idea of heliocentricism or that the sun rested in the center of the solar system, not the earth.

• This idea disagreed with the Church and Copernicus was afraid to publish his work while he was still alive.

• Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler worked together to discover mathematical proofs that showed that the sun was at the center of the solar system and why planets moved.

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Galileo Galilei• Credited with studying the

movement of pendulums, the rate at which objects fall, and creating a more accurate telescope with which he discovered Saturn’s rings and four of Jupiter’s moons.

• He eventually published a book which proved heliocentricism. He was eventually forced by the Catholic Church to recant and was excommunicated. He lived the rest of his life under house arrest He was officially forgiven by the Catholic Church in 1992.

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Scientific Method• Created by Francis Bacon as

a systematic approach to studying events in the world.

• Steps: Ask, Observe, Hypothesize, Test, Analyze, Conclude

• This same process would later be applied to thinking about government and religion during a movement known as the enlightenment.

• Do you think that this process is still used today? Where? Why?

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• Rene Descartes believed that all old ideas should be rejected until they could be proved.

• He wanted all natural phenomena to be proven through math and logic.

• His most famous quote is “I think, therefore I am”

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Other inventions• Issac Newton- gravity and

optics• Leeuwenhoek- microscope• Harvey- noticed that the

human heart worked as a circuit to pump blood

• Boyle- Boyle’s Law, argued that the earth was made of many smaller components and that they all affect one another

• Jenner- inoculation• What affect would incoculation

have on humanity? Why

Summary

Write one sentence that best describe the central idea of your concept web.

Reflection

How do you think the ideas of the Scientific Revolution will effect the European views of government and society?