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Scientific Revolution
Standard: Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of
Europeans.
Essential Question: What were the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the
world view of Europeans?
Explain the scientific contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton and how these ideas
changed the European world view.
Definition:
Influences:
Scientific Thinkers
Contribution
Changed European View
Nicolaus Copernicus
Old View:
New View:
Johannes Kepler
Old View:
New View:
Galileo Galilei
Old View:
New View:
Essential Question: What were the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the
world view of Europeans?
Sir Isaac Newton
Old View:
New View:
Other Contributions
Scientific Revolution
Standard: Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of
Europeans.
Essential Question: What were the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the
world view of Europeans?
Explain the scientific contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton and how these ideas
changed the European world view.
Definition:
new way of thinking about the natural world based
on careful observation and a willingness to question
Scientific Thinkers
Contribution
Nicolaus Copernicus
Wrote: On the Revolutions of the
Heavenly Spheres
Influences:
 Renaissance inspired new curiosity
 Exploration broaden European horizons
 Scientific discoveries challenge excepted
thinking
 Printing press spread ideas
Changed European View
Old View:
believed the earth was the center of the universe (geocentric)
New View:
theorized that the sun was the center and the earth rotated around it
(heliocentric)
Johannes Kepler
gave three fundamental laws of
planetary motion
Old View:
Planetary orbits are circular with the sun sitting in the center
New View:
rotated following an elliptical course (egg-shaped) with the sun
sitting towards the end of the ellipse
Galileo Galilei
first known scientist to regularly
observe the universe using a
telescope
Old View:
Moon was a pure substance
New View:
Moon had a rough surface, supported Copernicus ideas
Essential Question: What were the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of Europeans?
Sir Isaac Newton
Wrote: The Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy
Old View:
a divine spirit present in all the material things that allowed for movement
(hermetic theory)
New View:
gravity is the reason for planetary motion
everything worked together in order like pieces to a clock and God was at the
center of it that set everything in motion like a clock maker
Other Contributions
Scientific Method
“I think therefore I am” Rene Descartes
French intellectual who challenged traditional ideas. He said that human reason was capable of discovering and explaining the
laws of nature and man. He accepted nothing as true unless it was proved.