Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution develops as a offshoot of the Renaissance . The same spirit of inquiry(another word for inquiry is questioning things)
that fueled the Renaissance, led scientists to question traditional beliefs about the workings of the universe. One of the main ideas to come out of the Scientific Revolution was the use of the Scientific Method, which uses observation and experimentation to explain theories and how the universe works; or simpler, scientists prove theories by experiments and what they see from the experiments.


Now there are only three people you need to learn:
1.) The Polish guy, Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed theheliocentric model of the universe. Very simply, the Sun is the center of the universe and everything revolves around it. No one believed him and still believed that the Earth was the center.

2.) Galileo created a homemade telescope. However the church told him to take it back or be killed.

3.) Isaac Newton came up with the idea of gravity, explaining why everything drops to the ground.

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