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HWH Unit 3 Chapter 1.5. The Scientific Revolution. A New World-View. Connections to the Renaissance and the Reformation A re-examination of ancient texts Skepticism toward old assumptions Challenging the Catholic Church. The Old World-View. Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Geocentrism. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
HWH Unit 3
Chapter 1.5
A New World-View
Connections to the Renaissance and the ReformationA re-examination of ancient textsSkepticism toward old assumptionsChallenging the Catholic Church
The Old World-View
Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Geocentrism
Support for Geocentrism
Aristotle’s logic Ptolemy’s math The Bible
Copernicus and Heliocentrism
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Support for Copernicus
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)Observational
support for Copernicus
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)Elliptical orbits
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Galileo and the Inquisition
Bacon, Descartes, and the Scientific Method
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Baconian Thought
EmpiricismInductive reasoning
○ Start with a question, end with a certainty
Cartesian Thought
Systematic doubt“Cogito ergo sum”
Deductive reasoning Rationalism
Modern Application
Baconian empiricism and induction
+ Cartesian rationalism and deduction
= The modern scientific method
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) The Structure of the Human Body
(1543)
William Harvey (1578-1657) On the Movement of the Heart and
Blood (1628)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)