HW#5

1)Identify

• Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking about the natural world.
• Nicolas Copernicus: He was a polish cleric and atronomer.
• Heliocenric Theory: The theoty that the stars and the other planets revolve around the sun.
• Johannes Kepler: He was a brilliant mathematician who proved mathematically that the planets revolve around the sun
• Galileo Galilei: He was a 17 year old italian student who discovered the law of pendulum.
• Scientific Method: It's a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
• Francis Bacon: An english politician and writer, had a passionate interest in science.
• Rene Descartes: He developed analytical geometry, wich linked algebra and geometry.
• Issac Newton: an english scientist who discovered the theory of motion.

2)Causes of the Scientific Revolution

• Schoolars began to question the Geocentric Theory.
• Schoolars replaced old assumptions with new theories.
• A combination of discoveries and circumstances led to the Scientific Revolution.
• The spread of the hallenging ideas both old and new.
• More widely among Europe's thinkers.