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Scientific Revolution Images

CHY 4U

Origins of Scientific Revolution Partly from the Renaissance

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Ideas don’t have to fit preconceived notions of the universe (humanism?)

Challenge to tradition

The ‘Ologies’ as Opposed to Theology Epistemology

theory of knowledge as a method of organizing ideas

Cosmology theory of the universe

The Scientific Method

Observation Experiment Rather than…

Sacredness of Geocentrism

Old View of the Universe based on Aristotle and Ptolemy spheres revolve around earth which doesn’t move heavenly bodies attached to spheres 10 spheres, highest is the home of God Perfect circular motion of spheres Humans at centre, special relationship with God

Geocentric Model

The Geocentric Paradigm, Philosophy: Chinese/Japanese 350, 2006.

http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/Asia350/ptolemy.html (Feb. 21, 2013).

Heliocentric Model

NASA Earth Observatory. Feature Article: Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea that Launched the Scientific Revolution. 2009.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/ (Sept. 6, 2010).

Copernicus’s On the Revolutions…

Rare Book Library at the University of Sydney. Origins of Modernity Online Exhibition: Cosmology and Astronomy – Copernicus.

2002. http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/copernicus.html (Sept. 6, 2010).

Copernicus: Fame After His Lifetime

Warszawa.com. Warsaw Monuments. N.d. http://www.warszawa.com/cmarter.asp?doc=1748 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Denton, William. The FRBR Blog. De Revolutionius. 2007. http://www.frbr.org/2007/02/22/de-revolutionibus (Sept. 22, 2010).

Contrary to popular opinion, Brahe, Kepler and Galileo were all known to have owned copies of On the Revolutions…

Copernicus

The Museums of Florence: History of Science Museum, N.d., http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/History_of_Science_museum.html (July 23, 2012).

Joe Palca, “For Copernicus, A Perfect Heaven Put Sun at Center,” National Public Radio, Nov. 8, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/141931239/for-copernicus-a-perfect-heaven-put-sun-at-center (July 23, 2012).

Now He’s Worth $2, 210, 500

Christie’s. Lot 60, Sale 2013 – Copernicus…2009. http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5084091 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Brahe’s Universe and Uranibourg Observatory

Rice University. Galileo Project: Science – Tycho Brahe, Tychonic Universe. 2003.

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html (Sept. 6, 2010); Long, Tony. Wired. August 8, 1576: Brahe’s Palatial Gateway to the Heavens. 2007. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0808 (Sept. 15, 2010).

Kepler Used Brahe’s Data

Elliptical orbits of planet

PBS Online/WNET New York. Stephen Hawking’s Universe. N.d. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/kepler.html (Sept.

15, 2010).

Galileo’s Telescope

Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science. Multimedia Catalogue. 2010.

http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=405001 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Galileo’s Telescope

Museums of Florence, History of Science Museum, N.d., http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/History_of_Science_museum.html (July 23, 2012).

Phases of Venus, 1623

International Year of Astronomy 2009. Graphic Description of Venus Phases. 2009.

http://www.astronomy2009.org/resources/multimedia/images/detail/galileo_12/ (Sept. 6, 2010).

Moons of Jupiter, 1610

NASA. Solar System Exploration – Galileo’s Journal. 2008. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=7303 (Sept. 6,

2010).

Galileo’s Dialogo, 1632

Library of Congress – European Collections. 2005 Science and Technology. http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/guide/science.html (Sept. 15,

2010).

Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus discussing the universe