OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Objectives
Students will be able to explain how Europe experienced a Scientific Revolution during the 16th and 17th centuries. Students will be able to analyze primary sources relating to the Scientific Revolution.

Students will complete a graphic organizer on the contributions of various people to the Renaissance.

Pre-Scientific Revolution
Thomas Aquinas: Scholasticism
Everything in the universe is true, our only job is to explain it

What do you think is the problem with this theory?

Old Science
Relied on
Ancient authorities Church teachings Common sense

New Science
Relied on
Observation Experimentation Scientific reasoning

Challenged traditions and institutions

Galen ~150 AD
Roman Physician Made generalizations about the human body based on observations of animals

Andreas Vesalius
1543 On The Structure of the Human Body

Study of anatomy Corrected errors from the past

William Harvey, 1628

Described the Circulation of Blood heart pumps blood to the veins and arteries

Francis Bacon, 1620

Rejected the reliance on pre-existing theory Dont jump to conclusions without evidence

Experimentation with an observation of the surrounding world

Knowledge is power.

Rene Descartes, 1637

I think, therefore I am

New Philosophy of Thinking

Bacon: Induction
Gathering large amounts of data analyzing it to draw a conclusion

Descartes: Deduction
Proceeding logically from one certainty to the next one

We did x, so we can say y.

If Then

Royal Society of London For the Promotion of Natural Knowledge

Chartered in 1622 First scientific society in Great Britain

Started out as small, informal discussions

Women were initially not included

Isaac Newton, 1687

Law of Universal Gravitation Explained the underlying cause of all celestial motion

Calculus

Women during the Scientific Revolution

Generally not written about / published during the 16th century Played a greater role in the Enlightenment and 17th and 18th centuries Some relatives of male thinkers played a role in the Scientific Revolution

John Wallis
We have a great esteem for Aristotle and judge him to be a great man but we do not think that he had so exhausted the stock of knowledge of that kind as that there would be nothing left for the inquiry of aftertimes

John Wallis
as neither can we of this age hope to find out so much, but that there will be much left for those that come after us