Age of Revolutions
A Revolution?What is a revolution?
A sudden or extreme changeHow does a revolution begin?
Many different waysTypically starts with one idea that is
different from the normal
Scientific RevolutionThe Basics
What’s the Big Deal?Scientific Revolution will change the
way people viewed the world around them
Began to question old beliefs
The Scientific Revolution: Before
Before Scientific Revolution, knowledge often based on superstition and old beliefs
Church stated that all old beliefs were truth
Disagreeing with the Church was heresy and could lead to death
The Scientific Revolution: The BeginningGeocentric Theory
Earth is center of the universeGod created the Earth and humans
therefore it is the centerCopernicus develops the Heliocentric
TheoryIdea that the sun was the center of the
universe and not EarthWill not publish ideas until end of his lifeWhy?
Scared of punishment of Church
The Theories that Started it AllGeocentric Theory Heliocentric Theory
The Scientific Revolution: BeginningsGalileo
Confirms Copernicus’s theoryChurch puts him on trial – Galileo says
he made it all up and stays on house arrest the rest of his life
Too late – ideas are already spreading and making more people think
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The Scientific Revolution: It StartsOpposite of basing ideas on belief
and superstition is using reasonKnowledge will now be based on
reasonUsing logic and observation to figure
something out
The Scientific Revolution: It StartsFrancis Bacon
Develops the Scientific Method – a logical method to gather information
5 Steps in Scientific Method1. Question2. Hypothesis3. Test 4. Evaluate and Analyze5. Conclusion
More Important People of Scientific RevolutionIsaac Newton – discovered Laws of
Gravity and Laws of MotionHarvey – discovered circulation of the
blood, studied the human bodyAnton van Leeuwenhoek – used a
microscope to observe bacteria and red blood cells
Edward Jenner – created a vaccine for smallpox
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