CAUSES:
Reinassance
Humanism
Technology
Mathematics
Great Mathematicians
Nicholas Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo galilei
Isaac Newton
Ptolemaic System
Universe is geocentris
( Earth is the center of the universe
Nicolas Copernicus:
Universe is heliocentric
Johannes Kepler:
Planets orbits are elliptical
Galileo Galilei:
With the telescope he discovered:
mountains in the moon
Jupiter has 4 moons
suspots
Isaac Newton:
Greatest genius
Major work: PRINCIPIA
3 Laws of motion
Universe works according to natural laws
Breakthroughs
•Medicine and Chemistry
Women contributions
•Margaret Cavendish
•Maria Winkelmann
◦discovery of a comet
Rene Descartes
•“I think therefore I am”
•Matter was detached from the mind and could be investigated independently by reason.
•Father of modern
RATIONALISM
◦reason is the chief source of knowledge
Francis Bacon
•Scientific Method
◦a systematic procedure for collecting and analysing evidence
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