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 Why was Charles I death significant?
 Who took over after Charles I? What did he do during his rule?
 What did William and Mary Sign?

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 Begin on the Scientific Revolution
 - Flash back of Ancient ideas
 - Clash with new ideas
 How did the Age of Explorations influence the
Scientific Revolution?
 Names and theories
 New Ideas conflict with Church Ideas
 Scientific Method and scientist

1550 - 1789

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 How do you think people thought of science?
 What do you think was being taught?
 Who was doing the teaching?
 Who was doing the research?

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 Middle Ages:
 - Earth was an unmoving object.
 - Sun, moon, and stars moved around the earth.
 - Heaven was beyond the stars.

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 Geocentric Theory – Earth was the center of the universe.
 - Idea came from Aristotle (Greek philosopher 4 th century B.C.E.)
 Christianity taught that God deliberately placed earth at the center of the universe.
 True or False based on the Bible.

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 A new way of thinking about the natural world; based upon careful observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs.
 - Mid 1500s, a few scholars published works challenging the church and ancient thinkers.

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 What helped the spread:
 - Muslim Scholars work translated by European
Scholars.
 - Studied ancient views and current views
 Found that ancient authorities often did not agree with each other.
 - Discovery of new people, plants, and animals in
Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
 Opened ideas to possible new truths.

What helped spread the ideas of the Scientific Revolution?
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 The Printing Press
 Who invented the Printing Press?
 Johannes Gutenberg
 Who gave him the idea of the invention?
 The Chinese

 Why do you think???
 Expanded Astronomy and Mathematics.
 Needed better navigation.
 Reached Ancient limits and needed to know more.

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 What major theory came from the Scientific
Revolution that changed the world?
 Who came up with that theory?

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 Nicolaus Copernicus came up with theory.
 Sun is the center of the universe.
 - Earth, planets, and stars revolved around sun.
 What is wrong about this theory?
 Stars do not revolve around sun.

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 Feared persecution and rejection did not publish ideas until 1543.
 Book: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
 - Stirred little controversies at first.

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 Built an observatory and recorded his observations.
 Collected data about planets and their movements, but didn't make any mathematical sense of it
 His findings sided with Copernicus.

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 Continued the work of Tycho Brahe.
 Concluded mathematical laws govern planetary motion.
 Kepler’s laws proved Copernicus to be true.

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 Challenged old ideas:
 - Aristotle's idea that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects.---- proved it wrong
 Made improvements to the telescope and used it in
1609.

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 1610 Published newsletter Starry Messenger.
 Announced:
 - Jupiter had 4 moons
 - Sun had dark spots
 - Earth’s moon had a rough and uneven surface
 Shattered Aristotle's theory that moons and stars were made of pure and perfect substance.
 Laws of Motion and other theories supported
Copernicus.

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 Galileo’s ideas were most accepted because he was able to prove his findings through the telescope.
 - He was able to have Copernicus’s ideas accepted through his findings as well.

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 Why would the church have issues with these new ideas?

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 Both Catholics and Protestants frightened by these ideas.
 People may question the teachings and authority of the church.
 1633 – Galileo stood trial and under threat of torture read aloud a confession agreeing his ideas and
Copernicus ideas were false.
 Died in 1642 under house arrest.

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