CH 22-1
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
22.1-The Scientific Revolution.pdfGroup Discussions
What was so revolutionary about the Scientific Revolution? In your answer, be sure to discuss the scientific method.
Contrasting: What is the scientific method method? How does it differ from the methods used by scholars in medieval times.? Think about questioning authority, gathering data, and the basis for conclusions.
Standard:
I-C.3 Explain and analyze revolutions (e.g., democratic, scientific, technological, social) as they evolved throughout the enlightenment and their enduring effects on political, economic and cultural institutions.
Objective:
List circumstances that led to the Scientific Revolution.
Summarize the development of the heliocentric theory.
Describe the scientific method and explain Newton's law of gravity.
Describe the importance of the scientific method in different fields.
WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading
EQ: What was so revolutionary about the Scientific Revolution? In your answer, be sure to discuss the scientific method.
Women in science who changed the world
The roots of modern science
The medieval View
A new way of thinking
How we figured out the earth goes around the sun
Are evolutionary model of the universe
Galileo's discoveries
Conflicts with the church
Galileo
Galileo.mp4Galileo
In this seventeenth-century engraving, Galileo Galilei faces the Inquisition, a Roman Catholic institution that prosecuted individuals accused of a wide variety of crimes related to heresy. At a trial in 1633, the Inquisition found Galileo “vehemently suspect of heresy,” forced him to recant Copernicanism, and placed him under house arrest for the remainder of his life.
Discussion Questions
How was Galileo able to provide additional evidence for the Sun-centered universe?
How did Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus persuade him of the true nature of the solar system?
Do some research on the public's reaction to Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems." What repercussions did he face?
What role did Copernican theory play in influencing Galileo's discoveries?
Discuss the role of observation in science, using Galileo as an example.
The scientific method
Bacon and Descartes
Newton explains the law of gravity
The scientific method
Isaac Newton
The Scientific Revolution spreads
Scientific Instruments
Medicine and the human body
Discoveries in chemistry
Émilie du Châtelet was perhaps the most exceptional female scientist of the Enlightenment. Although she had to contend with the conventional demands on women, she remained committed to her study of Newton and science.
Vocabulary
Scientific Revolution
New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question
Heliocentric theory
Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe
Geocentric Theory
View which held that the earth was the center of the universe
Galileo Galilei
Scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientists ideas that disagreed with the church's view
Scientific Method
Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas
Isaac Newton
Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity
Inoculation
the act of injecting a germ into a person’s body so as to create an immunity to the disease
Critical Thinking:
1a Why do you think historians use the word revolution to describe this period of change?
1b Why would the people and animals of Africa open Europeans to new ideas?
2a In what way did Copernicus's theory contradict religious view?
2b Why do you think that Galileo chose to recant?
3a How was the scientific method of exploring ideas different from looking to history for answers?
3b Why might the church dislike the ideas of Bacon and Descartes?
4a Why were the new scientific views of revolutionary?
4b What was the universe like, according to Newton?
5a How did the Scientific Revolution support the saying necessity is the mother of invention?
5b What was the likely danger of using live germs to inoculate? Why were the risks lower if the germs were the for a mild disease?
