Scientific Revolution Inquiry Questions

General: To what extent was the scientific revolution a force for change in European society?

Specific: How did Galileo fit into the story of continuity and change evolving out of the Renaissance?

CHY 4U

DAY 1

Origins of Scientific Revolution Partly from the Renaissance

new discoveries about blood pressure, classification, calculus, anatomy, circulation, linear perspective, weapons

Ideas don’t have to fit preconceived notions of the universe (sound like humanism?)

Challenge to tradition

The ‘Ologies’ as Opposed to Theology Epistemology

theory of knowledge as a method of organizing ideas

Cosmology theory of the universe

New: The Scientific Method

Observation Experiment

Rather than… Think back to Renaissance slide on Leonardo Da Vinci. Think about information fitting into worldviews.

View video clip from The Medicis.

Geocentric Model of the Solar System

The Geocentric Paradigm, Philosophy: Chinese/Japanese 350, 2006.

http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/Asia350/ptolemy.html (Feb. 21, 2013).

Geocentrism: Sacred or Secular? Old View of the Universe

based on Aristotle and Ptolemy spheres revolve around earth which doesn’t move heavenly bodies attached to spheres 10 spheres, highest is the home of God perfect circular motion of spheres humans at centre, special relationship with God

Heliocentric Model

NASA Earth Observatory. Feature Article: Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea that Launched the Scientific Revolution. 2009.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/ (Sept. 6, 2010).

Copernicus’s On the Revolutions…

Rare Book Library at the University of Sydney. Origins of Modernity Online Exhibition: Cosmology and Astronomy – Copernicus.

2002. http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/copernicus.html (Sept. 6, 2010).

Brahe’s Universe and Uranibourg Observatory

Rice University. Galileo Project: Science – Tycho Brahe, Tychonic Universe. 2003.

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html (Sept. 6, 2010); Long, Tony. Wired. August 8, 1576: Brahe’s Palatial Gateway to the Heavens. 2007. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0808 (Sept. 15, 2010).

Kepler Used Brahe’s Data

Elliptical orbits of planet

PBS Online/WNET New York. Stephen Hawking’s Universe. N.d. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/kepler.html (Sept.

15, 2010).

Galileo’s Telescope

Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science. Multimedia Catalogue. 2010.

http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=405001 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Phases of Venus, 1623

International Year of Astronomy 2009. Graphic Description of Venus Phases. 2009.

http://www.astronomy2009.org/resources/multimedia/images/detail/galileo_12/ (Sept. 6, 2010).

Moons of Jupiter, 1610

NASA. Solar System Exploration – Galileo’s Journal. 2008. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=7303 (Sept. 6,

2010).

Galileo’s Dialogo, 1632

Library of Congress – European Collections. 2005 Science and Technology. http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/guide/science.html (Sept. 15,

2010).

Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus discussing the universe

Day 1 Homework:

Fill in Scientific Revolution organizer in handouts using pages 71-73.

DAY 2Really this is only half a period.

Why did Galileo Get in So Much Trouble in 1633? See “Modern History Sourcebook: The Crime

of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633” PSD in handouts. Identify biased language.

What was he accused of?

Explain why he faced such serious consequences in 1633.

See “Galileo’s Context” in handouts.

HTC Journal

Conclusions on the inquiry questions? General: To what extent was the scientific

revolution a force for change in European society?

Specific: How does Galileo fit into the story of continuity and change evolving out of the Renaissance?

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Day 2 HW (after Hobbes and Locke lesson) Do your Hobbes and Locke note-taking on

pages 81-83.