Scientific+Revolution+JB

Jasmine Baboldashtian

Scientific Revolution

Describe the new astronomy of the 16th and 17th centuries and analyze the ways in which it changed scientific thought and methods?

Copernicus heliocentric theory
 * conservative didnt reject Aristotles priciple of heavenly spheres
 * afraid to pubish his works

Brahe
 * believed in compromise between Copernicus and Ptolemy

Kepler
 * Hermetic thought
 * two laws of planetary motion
 * didnt believe in uniform circular movement

Galileo believed in heliocentic theory invented telescope

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Thesis: In the 1600s the Scientific Revolution brought forth a mass understanding of astronomy, some examples are Galileo,who used his telescope and his heliocentric belief to forever change the way people viewed the universe.