Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Hw #5

1) Terms & Names
Scientific Revolution : a new of thinking about the natural world.
Nicolaus Copernicus : a polish man that was a cleric and a astronomer who made the Heliocentric theory.
Heliocentric theory : a theory made by Nicolaus Copernicus who said that the planets and stars all revolved around the sun.
Johansses kepler : a mathematician and an assistant of Tycho Brahe.
Galileo Galilei : Galileo found out that the moon was not smooth like other people thought it was rough,  he proved that the moons surface was not made of pure perfect substance, because of all the things hes finding he is scaring  the Catholics and protestants.
Scientific method :  a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
Francis Bacon : a English politician and writer, he helped make the scientific method come to life.
Rene Descartes : he made analytical geometry by linking algebra and  geometry.
Isaac newton : a great English scientist that merged the ideas of Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Johanasses kepler into 1 theory of motion.

2)  Taking Notes
1. there wasn't really anything that explained nature.
2. people that used math for tools started seeing how nature is more understanding to them. 
3. because of the scientific method more scientist are making new tools, ideas, and ways to find out stuff.
4. people began to think about nature and started getting ideas questioning  the church.

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