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- The Scientific Revolution began during the Renaissance.
- It was a movement that rejected traditional authority and church
teachings in favor of scientific reasoning.
- A new scientific method was developed.
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- The scientific method is a process whereby scientists observe nature and
make hypotheses (educated guesses).
- Scientists then test their hypotheses through experiments.
- A scientist must prove his hypothesis or he cannot claim it is true.
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- Believed that the sun was at the center of the universe
- Challenged the Catholic Church’s belief that the planets revolved around
the earth.
- Said the universe was of staggering size and the Earth was no different
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- Galileo was an Italian scientist.
- He supported Copernicus.
Copernicus believed that the planets traveled around the sun.
- Galileo built a telescope to prove it.
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- Made a remarkable star catalogue of over 1000 stars.
- His improvements of methods and accuracy in observations was very
significant.
- He proved that comets are not objects in the atmosphere.
- He showed irregularities in the moons orbit.
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- Discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical
orbits.
- He gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion.
- He also did important work in optics and geometry.
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- Sir Isaac Newton was the most influential scientist of the Scientific
Revolution.
- Sir Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity.
- Gravity explains the movement of the planets and how objects fall on the
earth.
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- What was the Scientific Revolution?
- Why did scientists during the Scientific Revolution sometimes come into
conflict with Church officials?
- Describe the scientific method.
- Who was Galileo Galilei and what did he believe?
- Why did Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of gravity raise scientists’ hopes?
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