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The Scientific Revolution
Part 2
Science, a way of knowing
The word Science comes from
Latin verb:
Sciare….To Know
Science is a “Way of Knowing”
Things
Scientists “know things based on
Proof, not Faith.
But what is proof?
The Scientific Method
Galileo used experiments to “prove”
his theories about Astronomy and
Physics.
In the Early 17th Century Francis
Bacon and Rene Descartes
developed A system to prove things
by experimentation called the…
Scientific Method
Issac Newton’s “Principia”
Issac Newton used the the scientific method and
mathematics
To write a book in Latin explaining and
expanding on Galileo and Kepler called…
“Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy”
known as the “Principia”
This book laid the foundation for
Modern Physics
Other Sciences
In the next 200 years Advances were made
in many areas of Science
• Anatomy…1543 Andreas Vesalius used
dissection to learn about the Human Body
…1640’s William Harvey
figured out that the heart circulates blood
through the body.
• Biology…ca. 1660 Robert Hooke
discovered cells
• Chemistry
…1627 Robert Boyle applied the
Scientific Method to Alchemy to make
a new Science…
Chemistry
…1774 Joseph Priestly
discovered oxygen (and Carbonated
water!)
…Antoine and Marie Lavoisier
discovered oxygen’s role in fire.