HW #5

1. TERMS & NAMES
Identify
• Scientific Revolution- A new way of thinking about the natural world. A way that was based on observations and a person's eagerness to question the accepted beliefs of their time.

• Nicolaus Copernicus- A Polish cleric and astronomer who came up with the Heliocentric theory in order to show that the stars, the earth, and the planets revolved around the Sun.

• Heliocentric theory- A theory created by Nicolas Copernicus to explain that the stars, the earth, and the planters revolved around the Sun.

• Johannes Kepler- The assistant of Tycho Brahe and a mathematician. He studied Brahe's data, which helped Kepler to conclude that certain laws govern the planet's motion. Kepler's laws showed that the planets revolved around and proved that Copernicus's ideas were true.

• Galileo Galilei- A Italian student whose findings frightened Catholic and Protestants. He discovered the law of the pendulum, proved Aristotle's theory that heavy objects fall faster than lighter objects to be false, and created his own telescope. With the telescope, Galileo was able to make observations of the sun, the moon, and the planets.

• Scientific method- A logical procedure for acquiring and testing ideas.

• Francis Bacon- An English politician and writer who helped to advance the approach of using the scientific method. In his works, Bacon attacked medieval scholars for believing the conclusions of Aristotle and urged scientists to observe the world and gather information.
 
• René Descartes- An important thinker who linked algebra and geometry to create analytical geometry. This became a new tool for scientific research. Modern scientific methods were based on his ideas.

• Isaac Newton- A English scientist who brought together the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo into a single theory of motion.


2. TAKING NOTES
Use a web diagram such as the one below to show the events and circumstances that led to the Scientific Revolution.
1. Scholars began to question the scientific ideas of the ancient thinkers or the Bible by observing nature for themselves. During the mid 1500s, scholars began to publish work that challenged the ideas of Ancient thinkers and the church. As old assumptions are replaced with new ideas, European thought began to change.
2. With the creation of the scientific method, Scientists began creating new tools/instruments to make observations.
3. During the Renaissance, there weren't any good explanations about nature.
4. People who used math as a tool for things began using it to get a better understanding of nature.