The Scientific Revolution



The Scientific Revolution

Name: _________________

Read pp. 414 – 418 and answer the questions that follow.

Revolutionary Thinking

1. How did the Renaissance impact the Scientific Revolution?

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2. How did scientists in the 1500s and 1600s begin to test their ideas?

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3. After reading page 415, define the following:

Geocentric = ____________________________________________

Heliocentric = ___________________________________________

5. Draw three diagrams of the solar system according to Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler. They will show you how our view of the solar system has changed. Below each diagram, include a brief description of what makes it different than the previous theory. (2 points!)

6. How did the work of Galileo Galilei support the work of Copernicus? What happened to Galileo because of his findings?

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A New Scientific Method

7. What did each of these two philosophers believe that had a huge influence on the Scientific Revolution?

Francis Bacon - ______________________

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Rene Descartes - ______________________

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8. Explain how Francis Bacon’s scientific method works from what you know from science class and the diagram on p. 417. Why does a scientist repeat the steps of the scientific method?

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Science Continues to Advance

9. What was Newton’s “greatest discovery?” How does it connect to Copernicus’ and Kepler’s view of the universe?

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Ptolemaic System

(c. 100 A.D.)

p.414

Copernicus’s System

(1543 A.D.)

p.415

Kepler’s System

(1595 A.D.)

p.415

Ptolemy’s system shows the Sun and planets…

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Copernicus’s System differs from Ptolemy’s in that…________________________________________________________________________________________________

Kepler’s System differs from Copernicus’s in that…________________________________________________________________________________________________

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I think,

therefore I am!

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