The Scientific Revolution

So wait the Earth goes around the Sun?

What was it?

A revolutionary change of Thought

that occurred about 1600. Science

took on its modern meaning.
A secular (non-religious) ideology
from the Renaissance allowed
thinking free from the Church.
New technologies allowed for
faster discovery and more
collaboration. Discoveries were
provable and often practical.

Reasons it Occurred
The Scientific Revolution began in 1550s because of the recent
discoveries in other areas of European life:
During the Reformation, people began to question the ideas of the
Roman Catholic Church

Major Changes in Thought:

Mathematisation
Use math and controlled experimentation: Scientific
Method.

Mechanisation
Nature does not have a goal, The world consisted of
matter moving in accordance with the laws of physics.

Empiricism.
Inductive use reason and observation to reach a
conclusion
Deductive use proven facts to prove a theory

Copernicus
Copernicus heliocentric hypothesis

proposed that the earth & other planets

revolve around the sun, not around Earth
This radically changed Europes concept
of the universe & laid the foundation for
modern astronomy

Galileo
Uniform

acceleration of
falling bodies
Inertia and inertial
frames of reference
The Earth as a
magnet
Theory of lenses
(improves the
telescope)

Descartes
pioneered

Deductive
reasoning,
publishing in 1637
Discourse on
Method.
He is widely known
for issuing the
statement, "I think,
therefore I am"
(Cogito, ergo sum).

Newton
Newton believed that

scientific theory should

be coupled with rigid
experimentation.
Newton postulated the
theory of Universal
Gravitation.
Credited with inventing
Calculus
God does not
intervened in everyday
affairs.

Results of the Scientific Revolution

In time, scholars began to use observation,

experimentation, and scientific reasoning to

gather knowledge and draw conclusions
about the physical world
Everything was questioned and nothing was
assumed to be true
Later these ideas of reason, logic, and
observation will be applied to human
behavior This leads to an intellectual
revolution known as The Enlightenment