Scientific Revolution

• Geocentric Theory


  In the Middle Ages, the earth-centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe
• Scientific Revolution


  A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
• Heliocentric Theory


  The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
• Rationalism


  A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response
• Margaret Cavendish


  Educated scientist and astronomer, wrote several books contrasting her knowledge with the knowledge of other scientists. Helped popularize the Scientific Revolution.
• Rene Descrates


  Believed that scientist needed to reject old assumptions and teachings, mathematician,also believed that everything should be doubted until proved by reason
• Hermetic magic


  A belief that the world was a living embodiment of divinity and that humans had a spark of divinity within. Therefore, humans could use magic to understand and dominate the world.
• Alchemy


  Medieval chemistry; attempt to change base metal into gold
• Tycho Brache


  Provided evidence to support Copernicus' theory; Sun was the center of the solar system.
• Maria Winkelmann


  The most famous of the female astronomers in Germany. Discovered a comet.
• Francis Bacon


  (1561-1626) English politician, writer. Formalized the empirical method. Novum Organum. Inductive reasoning.
• Ptolemy


  Creator of the geocentric universe.
• Nicholaus Copernicus


  Creator of the heliocentric universe.
• Johannes Kepler


  Said planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles.
• Galileo Galilei


  He built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens.
• Isaac Newton


  Discovered the Laws of Gravity
• Edward Jenner


  Created the smallpox vaccine
• Galen


  Studied and dissected animals to understand the human body.
• Andreas Versalius


  One of the first physicians to accurately record the human anatomy based on his findings from autopsies and dissections. Father of Anatomy
• Robert Boyle


  Father of modern chemistry
• William Harvey


  Discovered that blood circulates throughout the body.