Scientific Revolution

Unit Essential Question: Explain the advances in science made during the time period known as the Scientific Revolution. Include information about the inventions, people we have learned about, and new scientific ideas that were presented during this time period.

Unit Objectives

1. Examine the cause and effects of the scientific revolution and the increased exploration undertaken during this time period.

2. Identify important theories advanced by Greek scientists.

3. Examine contributions to scientific and mathematical knowledge by Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages.

4. Explain how humanism and global exploration led to the Scientific Revolution.

5. describe inventions of the 17th and 18th centuries. Explain the development of scientific rationalism and its effect on the church and political thinking.

Unit Vocabulary

1. Rationalism

2. geocentric theory

3. harmony

4. anatomy

5. dissection

6. Scientific Revolution

7. Heliocentric

8. universal gravitation

9. scientific method