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Scientific Revolution
✓ advances in the knowledge of how nature works, included new discoveries and solved
ancient problems, moved knowledge from uncertainty to uncertainty, came in the fields of
physics, astronomy, and medicine
alchemy
✓ the belief that matter could be understood and transformed by mixing substances and
using secret formulas, a famous alchemist was Paracelsus, who said that metals as well as
plants might have medicinal properties
Vesalius
✓ influenced anatomy and astronomy, wrote The Structure of the Human Body, member of
the Padua faculty, pointed out errors in the work of Galen, he used dessections to produce
anatomical descriptions that opened a new era of careful observation and
experimentation in the study of bodies, influenced anatomy to move to a new level
Copernicus
✓ wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, said that the calculations of planetary
movements of Ptolemy were way too complex but Copernicus's were also complex, he
believed in the heliocentric theory, which said the sun is the center of the universe, Polish,
successors found his calculations to be indespensable, ideas became a part of inellectual
discussion, influenced the creation of the Gregorian calendar, the scholarly community
argued over the certainty of Copernicus's ideas
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Tycho Brahe
✓ the leading astronomer of the era, produced the most remarkable observations of the
heavens before the invention of the telescope by plotting the path of the moon and
planets every night for decades, came up with an uneasy theory that was a compromise
between the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems
Kepler
✓ German, made major advances in the work of Copernicus and helped resolve the
uncertainties in astronomy, believed that only the language of math could describe the
movements of the heavens, famous astrologer, thought Copernicus was right, wanted to
confirm the heliocentric theory right, discovered the three laws of planetary motion,
opened a new era in astronomy, proved that orbits of the planets are ellipses and that
there is a regularity based on their distance from the sun which determines the movements
of all planets
Galileo
✓ Italian, first to perceive the connection between planetary motion and motion on the earth,
came up with the theory of inertia, was 1st to infer that Jupiter has satellites and moons,
taught the heliocentric theory, which caused trouble with the church, they told him to quit
teaching this and in fear of excommunication, he renounced beliefs, invented the
telescope, was one of the first to approach his work in the same way as modern scientists,
wrote Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems, advocated experience, reason, and
doubt, did not let common sense and theological teachings get in the way
Pope Gregory XIII
✓ decided to reform the calendar in 1582, creating the Greorian calendar
William Harvey
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✓ English doctor, revolutionized the understanding of the human body when he ientified the
function of the heart and proved that the blood circulates
Newton
✓ contributed to math, physics, and astronomy, he combined these three to explain motion,
developed calculus and the basic laws of modern physics, which govern the motion of the
moon and the planets, wrote Principia, which said that math and experiments prove
science and give it certainty, active participation in meetings of the Royal Society of
London, provided the expanation of the movement of objects in space, said that the world
was stable and orderly, first scientist to receive a knighthood in England
epistemology
✓ a new theory of how to obtain and verify knowledge
Bacon
✓ inspired scientists with what they could contribute to society, said that science is the savior
of humans, greatest of science's propagandists, wrote the New Atlantis, which held his
view of an ideal society, believed in induction
induction
✓ starting with observation, the logical process by which one moves to general principles,
advocated by Bacon
Descartes
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✓ French, made first attempt to apply the new methods of science to theories of knowledge,
said that people can be deceived by their senses, so one should apply all knowledge to
the princple of doubt, refusal to accept an authority without verification, came up with "I
think therefore I am." showed the difference between faith and reality and the difference
between science and fate and perception, theoretical instead of experimental, found
difference between mass and weight, used deduction, wrote the Discourses
deduction
✓ knowing a fact with certainty, therefore you can deduce another fact, gaining facts from
facts, advocated by Descartes
Pascal
✓ said that faith was more important than science, truths found in science are limited, wrote
the Pensees, anxious about the growing influence of science
Royal Society
✓ formed by Robert Boyle and eleven others in 1660, acted as a more permanent and
systematic organization of scientific activity, granted a charter by Charles II, served as a
headquarters and clearing center for research, began publishing Philosophical
Transactions
Mannerism
✓ attempt to escape reality, echoed by painters called Mannerists, El Greco was a huge
mannerist, who cultivated artificial and esoteric images of the world
El Greco
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