| A | B |
|---|
| Revolution in understanding | Scientific Revolution |
| Revolution of ideas | Enlightment |
| Revolution in action | American Revolution |
| The earth-centered view came from this philosopher | Aristotle |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Heliocentric Theory |
| Brahe | recorded the movements of the planets for many years |
| Kepler | Law of planetary motion; Continued Brahe's work and concluded that certain mat laws govern planetary motion-that planets move around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles |
| Gailleo | Law of pendulum and laws of motion and falling objects accelerate at a fixed and predicatble rate |
| Work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo | Developed into a new approach to science called the Scientific Method |
| Francis Bacon | Passionate interest in science-Said scientists should observe the world and gather information about it first and then draw conclusions |
| Empiricism | Experimental Method |
| Descartes | Set forth scientific method of reasoning from the basis of doubt; I think, therefore I am. He relied on math and logic-believe everything should be doubted until proved by reason. Only thing he knew for certain was that he existed. |
| Newton | Publishes the law of gravity-Called the universe a giant clock; God is the creator of this orderly universe, the clockmaker who set everything in motion; law of universal gravitation |
| Janssen | Invented the first microscope |
| Toricelli | Invented the first mercury barometer |
| Boyle | Proposed that matter was made up of smaller primary particles that joined together in different ways-discovers math relationship between volume, temperature, and pressure of gas affect each other |
| Harvey | Reveals how the human heart functions |
| Bacon | Experimental Method |
| Nova | Bright new star discovered by Brahe |
| Vesalius | Publishes human anatomy book |
