Scientific Revolution

• Scientific revolution - used to refer to the great intellectual achievements of science from sixteenth to seventeenth century
• Scientific revolution - was the golden age for people committed to scholarly life in science but it was also a deeply trying moments to some scientific individuals that led to their painful death
• His calculations also showed that the planets moved in oval shaped orbits, and not perfect circles, as Ptolemy and Copernicus believed. - Kepler
• Galileo galilei - Italian astronomer who built upon the scientific foundations laid by Copernicus and Kepler
• He assembled the first telescope which allowed him to see mountains on the moon and fiery spots on the sun - Galileo
• Isaac Newton - English scholar who built upon the work of Copernicus and Galileo.
• He was the most influential scientist of the Scientific Revolution. He used math to prove the existence of gravity - a force that kept planets in their orbits around the sun, and also caused objects to fall towards the earth. - Newton
• Newton published his scientific ideas in his book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• Darwin developed the biological theory of evolution that explains how modern organisms evolved over long periods of time through descent from common ancestors
• Artificial selection - Darwin
• Thomas malthus - he noticed that people were being born faster than people were dying
• He's the father of psychoanalysis - Freud
• ID - pleasure principle