AP European History / Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
4.2 The Scientific Revolution
Notes
- Copernicus: heliocentric model.
- Kepler: elliptical orbits. Galileo: telescope observations; tried by the Church.
- Newton: laws of motion and gravity (Principia, 1687).
- Bacon (empiricism, inductive method) and Descartes (deductive reasoning, "I think, therefore I am").
Practice
Copernicus argued that:
Heliocentrism.
Newton's Principia described:
1687.
Francis Bacon promoted:
Scientific method.
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