Transcript The Scientific Revolution - Kingsley Area Schools K-4

The Scientific Revolution
“In 1500 – 1800 B.C., new scientific theories and
discoveries brings about many changes.”
Essential Questions
1. How did information change between the
Middle Ages and the Scientific Revolution?
2. How did the processes involved with science
change?
3. Who were key figures involved in the
revolution?
The Scientific Method
and
Math
Francis Bacon
1. Developed scientific method
2. Made many new discoveries possible.
3. A logical procedure for gathering information and
testing ideas.
What do you think the
scientific process was
like to conduct this
video.
Francois Viete
1. First to use letter to represent unknown quantities
2. Helped create trigonometry
Robert Boyle
1. First to conduct controlled chemistry experiments
2. “Boyle’s Law:” The volume of a gas depends on the
pressure extended on it.
Astronomy
Newton, 1642-1727
1.
All things in universe obey same
laws (stars, moons, planets, you)
2.
Gravity: attraction that draw
objects towards each other.
(Planets would go straight and
not orbit without it.)
3.
Inertia: An object resting will
remain resting. An object in
motion will remain in motion
until something stops it.
Demonstration of
Newton’s laws
Copernicus
Before:
1. Aristotle (early on) and
Ptolemy said the Earth
was the center of
universe.
2. Supported by the
church.
3. Geocentric theory
Why?
4. Earth didn’t look like it
was moving.
Copernicus cont.
After:
1. Copernicus, start of
modern astronomy,
1500’s
2. Sun was fixed at
center
3. Heliocentric theory
4. Didn’t publish until
elderly, afraid of
church.
Video example of
what they look like.
Kepler, 1571-1601
1. Proved Copernicus
correct, planets
revolve around sun,
mathematically.
2.
Proved that planets’
orbits around the
sun was elliptical
Galileo, 1564-1642
1. Believed in Copernicus and scientific
experiments.
2. Law of motion: light objects fall as
fast as heavy ones.
3. Made a telescope after hearing about
them.
4. Found moon rough, disproving
medieval idea of smooth.
5. Heliocentric = book = no permission
from Pope = inquisition trial.
-Old, torture?
-Recants, house arrest, watched.
What scientific theory is
proven here?
Galileo’s Finger
Admirer cut off
Galileo’s finger and
took a couple of his
teeth after his death.
They were recently
purchased and will
be put on display at
the Vatican.
Medicine and the study
of living things
Vesalius (vuh-say-lee-us) 1514-1564
1. Father of modern anatomy
2. Dissected mice, rats, cats,
dogs as a child
3. Began to dissect human
corpses against church
wishes, grave robber.
4. Taught at university, do not
rely on other’s theories, test
for yourself.
William Harvey 1578-1657
1. Blood circulates
through body and is
pumped through
vessels by the heart.
2. Hard work to prove
-No human volunteers
-Animals have
different anatomy
Leeuwenhoek (lay-vun-hook) 1632-1723
1. One of the 1st people
to build and use a
microscope.
2. Studied animal eyes,
fly brain, wool, plant
seeds.
3. Found single celled
organisms in water
droplets.
Linnaeus (Lih-nee-us) 1707-1778
1.
2.
3.
Developed a system for
naming and classifying
plants.
Gave a two word Latin
name to each living thing
Place similar beings in same
category
-Felis: Cat
-Felis domesticus (house cat)
-Felis leo (lion)
4. Today’s classifying system is
based on his model.
Women’s Contributions
Margaret Cavendish
1. Female scientist
2. Never formally
trained in science.
3. Published several
times
4. Wrote that men,
through science,
cannot control all
aspects of nature
Maria Winkelmann
1.
2.
3.
4.
Female Astronomer
Self taught
Discovered a comet
Denied post at Berlin
Academy for gender.
Example movie clips
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSP8Y3
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