Humanities 221

Easton

The Scientific Revolution:

Outline:

Question to consider: How revolutionary was the Scientific Revolution?

1. Medieval world view:

            -reliance on authority of Bible and Greek philosophers

            -medieval understanding of universe

            -belief in witches

2. The Scientific Revolution begins:          

            -the Copernican Revolution (1543)

            -Church resistance to change (The Protestant Revolution: Martin Luther, John Calvin

            -Galileo's challenge (1610)

            -Galileo on trial by Inquisition (1632)

3. The triumph of science:

            -Johannes Kepler's support of Copernicus

            -Sir Francis Bacon's scientific/Inductive method

            -René Descartes's rationalism

            -Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity (1687)

Terms:

Ptolemy

Aristotle

Nicolaus Copernicus's On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)

heretic

Index of Prohibited Books

Galileo Galilei's The Starry Messenger (1610)

Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)