WELCOME BACK!! SPRING SEMESTER 2013 • What are your goals for the new year? • What is your game plan to accomplish your goals? WH: study of the Scientific Revolution – Complete the “New Scientific Ideas” organizer – YOU WILL need a textbook to complete this activity today!!
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WELCOME BACK!! SPRING SEMESTER 2013
• What are your goals for the new year? • What is your game plan to accomplish your
goals?
WH: study of the Scientific Revolution– Complete the “New Scientific Ideas” organizer
– YOU WILL need a textbook to complete this activity today!!
Chapter 17: The Chapter 17: The Scientific RevolutionScientific Revolution
Men with Ideas!
I: New Scientific Ideas • Scientific Revolution came about
because people saw inconsistencies in what they saw in nature
• Based on careful observations & experimentation
Ptolemaic Universe: (geocentric)Earth is the center of the universe
Copernican Universe: (heliocentric) Sun is the center of the universe
A. Scientific Revolution 1. Leader of the
Scientific Revolution was the Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus
a. developed the heliocentric theory
2. Johannes Kepler- German astronomer who came up with the theory of planetary motion