scientific revolution

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• FEW EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGED  THE IDEAS OF THE ANCIENT THINKERS. IT WAS THE FIRST POINT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

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• IT STARTED WHEN A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE BEGAN TO QUESTION THE GEOCENTRIC METHOD.

1. NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

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   • A POLISH CLERIC AND ASTRONOME
   1. COPERNICU´S HELIOCENTRIC

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      • AFTER STUDYNG THE MOVEMENTS FOR MORE THAN 25 YERAS . HE REASONED THAT INDEEN , THE STARS , THE EARTH AND TE OTHER PLANETS REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN
      1. THE PROBLEM

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         • THE THEORY DID NOT COMPLETELY EXPLAIN WHY THE PLANETS ORBITED THE WAY THEY DID
   2. FINDINGS

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      • HE DID NOT PUBLISH HIS FINDINGS UNTIL 1543 , THE LAST YEAR OF HIS LIFE 

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• A DANISH ASTRONOMER THAT CAREFULLY RECORDED THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PLANETS FOR MANY YEARS

1. JOHANNES KEPLER

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   • BRILLIANT MATHEMATICIAN , AFTER BRAHE´S DEAD , HE CONTINUED HIS WORK
   1. KEPLER´S LAWS

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      • CONCLUDED THAT THE PLANETS REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN IN ELEPTICALORBITS. ALSO SHOWED THAT COPERNICUS´S BASIC IDEAS WRE TRUE.

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• FROM ITALY PUBLISHED A BOOK WITH ASTONISHING DATA ABOUT THE PLANETS SEPECIALLY JUPITER AND THE MOON.

1. REJECTED COPERNICUS IDEAS

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• IT WAS BASED ON THE IDEAS OF BACON AND DESCARTES

1. RENÉ DESCARTES

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   • a developed analytical geometry , which linked geometry and algebra
   1. I THINK , THEREFORE I AM
2. FRANCIS BACON

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   • ENGLISH WRITER THAT ATTACKED TO THE CONCLUSIONS OF ARISTOTLE.
   1. EMPIRICISM

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      • HE THOUGHT THAT SCIENTIST SHOULD TO EXPERIMENTS AND THEN DRAW THE CONCLUSIONS.
3. ISAAC NEWTON

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   • HELPED TO BRING TOGETHER THEIR BREAKTROUGHTS UNDER A SINGLE THEORY OF MOTION
   1. THE UNIVERSE LIKE A GIAN CLOCK
   2. THE LAW OF GRAVITY

1. ZACHARIAS JANSSEN
   1. MICROSCOPE
   2. INVENTED
2. TORRICELLI
   1. MERCURY BAROMETER
   2. DEVELOPED
3. ANDREAS VESALIUS
   1. HE DISSECTED HUMAN CORPSES
4. EDWARD JENNER
   1. INTRODUCED A VACCINE TO PREVENT SMALLPOX
5. ROBERT BOYLE
   1. PIONEERED THE USE OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN CHEMESTRY