Scientific Revolution  Created by NutGirl   18 terms · ID's
"On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres." New theories:
motionless sun in center of universe, earth rotates around sun
in circular orbit and moon rotates around earth. Shy about his
beliefs.   Observed night sky and rejected Ptolemaic system, but
couldn't accept the fact that the eath moved. Kepler became his
assistant.   3 Laws of Planetary Motion: 1. Elliptical, not
circular, orbit 2. Changing speeds of planets 3. Revolution
times get faster/slower   "The Starry Messenger." One of the
first to use telescope, which started a new age in observation.
Discovered: craters on the moon, moons of Jupiter, phases of
Venus, sunspots, inertia, change in motion. Forced to denounce
his findings by church. "but it does move..."  Isaac Newton
"Principia." Defined laws of gravity. His laws explained motion
in the universe.   Focused on dosage of medicines and used the
saying "like cures like." Macroism-microism philosophy. Father
of modern medicine.   "On th