Scientific+Revolution+DM

Denise Meier

Explain and analyze the new improvements in the Scientific Revolution and how it affected society's thoughts and living conditions.

Improvements:
 * New thoughts on Ptolemaic System-universe was seen as series of concentric spheres with a fixed, motion less earth as its center
 * Geocentric to heliocentric theory: earth was not the center of the universe, but the sun was and the planets orbited it
 * Copernicus; __On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres__-based on heliocentric theory
 * Galileo: __The Starry Messenger__-rejected by Catholic Church
 * Galileo's discoveries: craters on moon, mountains, sunspots, Jupiter's 4 moons etc.
 * Brahe: observations in castle he built
 * Kepler: theory that universe is constructed on a basis of geometric figures
 * Three laws of planetary motion: 1-orbits of planets weren't circular but elliptical 2-speed of planet is greater when its closest to the sun and decreases as its distance from the sun increases 3-square of planet's period of revolution is proportional to cube of its average distance from the sun
 * Inertia:body in motion continues in motion forever unless deflected by an external force
 * Newton: "apple falling from tree" analogy
 * __Principia__: universal law of gravitation
 * __Dialogue__: geocentric vs. heliocentric beliefs
 * Mechanist universe: Newton's idea that universe operated like a machine
 * Galen: 4 humors( blood, yellow bile, phlegm, and black bile). "purging and bleeding" as treatment
 * Paracelsus: "like cures like"
 * Vesalius: anatomical treatise
 * Harvey: noted that the heart, not the liver was the beginning point of circulation of blood in body....which was the same blood as in both veins and arteries.
 * Cavendish: man cannot control nature's effects and man can't have supreme power.
 * Merian: interest in bugs
 * Descartes: Cartesian Dualism-Separation between mind and body
 * Winklemann: saw comet while hubby was asleep
 * Bacon: Scientific Method
 * Pascal: __Pensees__

Thoughts and changes on society
 * attempt to improve human condition
 * god's role in "mechanical universe" was unclear
 * clash between science and religion
 * more treatments and cures for diseases saved more lives
 * new discoveries and knowledge spread across the world
 * appreciative of science

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