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| North Sea, Belgium and West Germany |
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| Explain how Amsterdam was constructed. |
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| Once was a huge bog, windmills pumped water out from land into sea, dikes created to keep water out. |
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Duch manufacturer of eye glasses.
Credited for inventing the first telescope. |
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English Scientist/Philosopher.
Credited with inventing the first microscope. |
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| What is Scientific Methodology? |
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The method of Scientia.
Knowledge is discovered by carefully observing and measuring nature, not from scripture. |
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| What four things did scientists and philosophers begin to embrace? |
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Reasoning over Faith
Skepticism over Dogma
Natural Law over Divine Intervention
Mathematical Truth over Revealed Truth |
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| What is Geocentric model? Who's credited for the idea? |
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The center of the universe was the Earth. Entire universe consisted of ten spheres.
Aristotle |
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| Who is Nicolas Copernicus? |
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A Polish Astronomer that revived Aristarchus' helocentric view of the universe.
Universe finite closed system.
Published ideas the year he died (1543) in fear of the church.
Pope banned book. |
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| What is Inductive Reasoning? |
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By carefully observing and measuring nature, one could draw general conclusions from particular examples.
Ex: pen falls at same rate everywhere --> gravity |
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| What is the Empirical Method? |
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Inductive Reasoning withing scientific experiments.
Helps us arrive at so called "truth of nature." |
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French Philosopher who lived in Holland.
Credited for Doubt and Deductive Reasoning - reasoning from the general to the particular. |
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| What did René Descartes find and invent? |
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Founded anaytical Geometry.
Invented what is known as Cartesian Coordinates (x, y, z) |
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| What was René Descartes' was of thinking? What and who did his reasoning oppose? |
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Came up with Deductive Reasoning.
Opposite of Francis Bacon - Inductive Reasoning.
Shift in way of thinking overall. |
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| What is the Method of Doubt? |
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You can doubt everything except the fact that you can doubt.
I think, therefore I am. |
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| Who is Johannes Kepler? What did he publish? |
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Danish mathematician/astronomer dedicated to clarifying the heliocentric theory
Published On the Motion of Mars |
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| What were the Two Laws in On the Moon to Mars, written by Johannes Kepler? |
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First: Orbital paths of planets were elliptical rather than circular.
Second: planets closer to the Sun move faster in their orbits than the planets farther from the Sun. |
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Who is Galileo Galelei?
-what did he optimize?
-what did his discovery solidify? |
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Italian Astronomer
Optimized the Dutch's optics into his own telescope.
Jupiter's moons orbit Jupiter, like the Sun to it's planets. Thus solidifying the heliocentric theory. |
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| What was the Law of Inertia? |
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| A mass that is in motion will keep on moving until some other force acts on it and either changes the rate of acceleration or stops it. |
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| Why was Giordano Bruno burned at the stake? |
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Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
-built upon whose dies
-what law |
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The cumination of the Scientific Revolution
-Kepler and Galileo.
-Law of Universal Gravitation |
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| What is the Law of Universal Gravitation? |
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Every object in the universe "exerts an attraction force to a greater or lesser degree on all other objects."
Sun has more gravity than earth, earth has more gravity than the mood...etc. |
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