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| Series of events leading to the birth of modern science. |
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| Who people believed before scientific revolution |
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| Explanations given by the Catholic Church officials. |
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| Latin word meaning knowledge or understanding |
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| Scientific Knowledge is based on... |
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| Observations, Facts, and logical ideas |
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| Main Greek Philosophers.. |
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| person that looks at the world in a logical way. |
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| Muslim scholars contribution to the scientific revolution |
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| Muslim scholars preserved and studied ancient texts. |
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| Jewish scholar tried to unite Aristotle's work with Jewish ideas. |
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| Christian scholar that tried to unite Aristotle works with Christian ideas. |
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| Alchemists were best known for... |
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| trying to change other metals into gold |
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| 4 roots of Scientific Revolution |
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| Greek ideas, scholars of three faiths, renaissance humanism, and knowledge of exploration |
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| What made people start to doubt Greek teachings? |
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| When Christopher Columbus bumped into North America instead of Asia, using Ptolemy's map, in which North America wasn't on. |
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| What marked the beginning of the Scientific Revolution? |
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| When a book was published by Nicolaus Copernicus called "on the revolution of the celestial spheres" in 1543. |
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| Earth and the other planets orbited the sun in a circular orbit. |
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| Tycho's main accomplishment |
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| emphasized the importance of careful observation and detailed, accurate RECORDS |
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| Johannes Kepler's main accomplishment |
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| Wrote that all planets moved in elliptical (oval) orbits, helping prove Copernicus's theory. |
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| First person to use the telescope |
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| Interested in mechanics, first person to routinely use experiments to test what he observed. |
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| Who is the "father of experimental science"? |
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| High point of Scientific Revolution was marked by... |
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| the publication of the book "Principia Mathematica" by Sir Isaac Newton |
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| one of the most influential scientists who ever lived. |
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| Law of Gravity, Laws of Motion |
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| Invented by Newton, a very advanced form of math scientists use to solve complex problems. |
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| instrument used to measure air pressure, invented by Torricelli |
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| Makes things appear bigger, invented by Janssen |
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| Used to measure temperature, invented by Galileo |
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| argued that science should be pursued in a systematic fashion |
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| French philosopher, doubted everything until it can be proven with reason, |
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| step by step method for performing experiments and other scientific research |
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| Steps of SCIENTIFIC METHOD |
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| state problem, gather information, form a hypothesis, test your hypothesis, record and analyze data, and draw conclusions. |
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| Ways in which scientists thought they could improve society |
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-changing its government
-Equality |
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| Reason for conflict between science and church |
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-science put forth ideas that contradicted church teachings
-when church was contradicted, it weakened the church |
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| -put on trial by the inquisition, in which he had to publicly reject his teachings. |
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