Scientific+Revolution+MC

= The Scientific Revolution =

Michelle Claas

**Astronomy:**
 * Claudius Ptolemy
 * Ptolemaic/geocentric theory
 * Nicolaus Copernicus
 * //On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres//
 * Heliocentric theory
 * Tycho Brahe
 * Uraniborg castle
 * Johannes Kepler
 * Brahe's assistant
 * Three laws of planetary motion
 * Heliocentric theory
 * Galileo Galilei
 * Telescope
 * Discoveries: craters and mountains on the moon, Jupiter's 4 moons, phases of Venus, and sunspots
 * //The Starry Messanger//
 * //Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican//
 * Newton
 * //Principia//
 * Three laws of motion
 * Universal law of gravitation
 * Newtonian world-machine

**Medicine:**
 * Galen
 * Animal dissection
 * 2 separate blood systems
 * 4 bodily humors
 * Paracelsus
 * "like cures like"
 * Andreas Vesalius
 * //On the Fabric of the Human Body//
 * William Harvey
 * //On the Motion of the Heart and Blood//
 * Heart was beginning point of blood circulations, not the liver

**Women:**
 * Margaret Cavendish
 * Debating
 * //Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy//
 * //Grounds of Natural Philosophy//
 * Maria Merian
 * Entomologist
 * //Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam//
 * Maria Winkelmann
 * Discovered a comet

**New Earth:**
 * Descartes
 * //Discourse on Method//
 * Cartesian dualism (separation of mind and matter)
 * Rationalism

**Scientific Method:**
 * Francis Bacon
 * //The Great Restoration//
 * Correct scientific method

**Science and Religion:**
 * Benedict de Spinoza
 * Pantheism
 * Blaise Pascal
 * //Pensees//

**Spread of Scientific Knowledge:**
 * The English Royal Society
 * The French Royal Academy of Sciences