Scientific Revolution

• Revolution: an organized social, cultural, political, economic, scientific, or educational change. This is done to express opposition to the current leadership or policies.
• Scientific revolution: a time of massive change in thinking and belief
• began in the mid-16th to 17th centuries.
• instrument in gaining a new perspective on the knowledge and beliefs of Europeans.
• The former influence of the church on people's lives have decreased and weakened
• Reason why it all started: Increasing number of universities studying and teaching innovative ideas. Getting in touch with Asian minds. Renaissance effect Beginning of exploration and sailing
• Radioactivity - Marie and Pierre Curie from the research of Henri Bequel
• X-ray - William Rontgen
• Jules Henri Poincare - is the solar system stable?
• Airplane - Orville and Wilbur Wright from Otto Lilienthal's glider
• Cadavers were used to study human anatomy.
• Discovered the concept of magnetism and electrical properties of various materials.
• Modernization of dentistry, physiology, chemistry, and optics.
• The mechanical calculator, steam engine, telescope, mercury barometer were invented.
• • Nicolaus Copernicus:  On the revolutions of heavenly spheres 1543; Galileo Galilei: Dialogue- Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• Nicolaus Copernicus: Heliocentric theory was introduced
• Tycho Brahe : 1546-1601, Danish astronomer. Theorized a system distinct from both the Ptolemaic and Copernican ones.
• Moon and Sun revolve around the Earth while other planets revolve around the Sun (by tycho brahe)
• Johannes Kepler: 1571-1630, Law of Planetary motions. It was emphasized that the planets move in an elliptical motion and their speed is not uniform.
• Kepler's three laws: Law of ellipses, law of equal areas, and law of harmonies
• Telescope: Galileo Galilei
• Sided with the Copernican Theory: Galileo
• The Albert Einstein of the 17th Century: Isaac Newton 1642-1727
• Hubble space telescope: Isaac Newton
• Isaac Newton proved through calculus that the discoveries of Kepler and Galileo were all part of the same law.
• Newton pioneered the differentiation and integration used by mathematicians today together with Gottfried Leibniz
• Newton's three Laws of Motion: Law of inertia, law of acceleration, law of action and reaction
• Francis Bacon: Novum Organum; Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method and meditations
• In this way, it is necessary to analyze specific things in order to develop a general explanation: Specific to General (Francis Bacon)
• Father of Modern Philosophy; Father of Analytical Geometry Rene Descartes 1596-1650
• Rene Descartes:

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  • Engineering curves of buildings , models, objects
  • Computer Graphics - 2D to 3D
  • Calculating orbits of satellites and spacecraft
  • Cartography - GPS system
  • Robotics
• Law of Universal Gravitation: Isaac Newton 1642-1727
• The terminology Cartesian Coordinate System or Cartesian Plane comes from his name: Rene Descartes
• Konrad von Gesner: History Animalism
• Kaspar Friedrich Wolff: discovered epigenesis in animals

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• Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon: Histoire Naturelleenvironmental effects on animals and plants
• Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564: On the Fabric of the Human Body
• William Harvey: 1578- 1657
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744-1829: Philosophie Zoologique; William Harvey: On the movements of the heart and blood in animals
• Pioneers in Chemistry: Robert Boyle, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier,