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• SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
• PERIODIZATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

  Happened between the times of Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) to that of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
• GALILEAN REVOLUTION

  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), he invented the telescope to observe the heavenly bodies specifically the sun, moon and the planets. His terrestrial telescope revealed the mountains and craters of the moon as well as the day-lit side of Venus, which provided strong observational evidence to the existence of heavenly bodies   but their movement around the sun.
• 3 LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION

  • LAW OF ELLIPSES
  • LAW OF EQUAL AREAS
  • LAW OF HARMONIES
• NEWTONIAN REVOLUTION

  Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the Newtonian Synthesis marked the shift from finite, qualitative cosmos to the view of an infinite, quantitative universe. He united the terrestrial and celestial bodies under a universal law of motion and eventually displacing the traditional belief in Aristotelian Cosmos. He argued that there is one kind of time, space and matter, which means that everything is always and everywhere the same.
• Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) born in the York House, London, England. He published ‘Novum Organum” in 1620, which formulated a new system of logic based on inductive methodologies. This book contributed to the development of the scientific method.