The Royal Society

 The Royal Society

• Founded in 1662 by King Charles II
• Cooperative effort for the advancement of sciences
• Heavily involved in promotion of inventions
• Admitted men of all origins, religions, classes
• Still exists today

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http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/scientificrevolution/section9.rhtml
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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

• English-born physicist and mathematician
• Experiments with light and optics
• Three laws of motion
• Explained how gravity worked
• Discovered infinitesimal calculus 
• Knighted for his accomplishments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM 

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http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/newton.html 

http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656

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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

• German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
• Discovered 3 major laws of planetary motion
• Paved way for 17th century world-system builders with notion of a physical astronomy
• Provided new account of how vision occurs

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

• Italian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, engineer and philosopher
• Supported Copernican theory (Heliocentric)
• Constructed his own telescope 32x more powerful than the previous one invented by the Dutch eyeglass maker
• Confirmed with telescope that the earth was not the center of the universe
• Fundamentally responsible for our knowledge of the universe

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)

• Polish mathematician and astronomer
• Heliocentric Theory
• De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
• Mathematics/Physics/Cosmology achievement

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What is 'The Scientific Revolution'?

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

With the Renaissance opening up people to new ways of thinking/ideas, scientific discovery was being encouraged much more than it ever had been. For the earlier centuries of the Middle Ages the people held their beliefs entirely based around the Church who in turn still practiced the teachings from Ancient Greece and the Romans. The artists and thinkers of the Renaissance were determined to know and portray reality, prompting a dramatic rise in scientific exploration.

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