HW# 5

Question 1
1. Scientific revolution- Beginning in the mid 1500s, a new way of thinking of thinking about the natural world that was based on new scientific theories that challenged the church, along with new inventions.
2. Nicolas Corpernicus- A Polish cleric and astronomer that came up with the heliocentric theory and wrote a book, "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies" that was made up of his findings.
3. Heliocentric theory- Theory that the stars and other planets revolved around the sun.
4. Johannes Kelper- Tycho Brahe's assistant who continued his work and concluded planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles.
5. Galileo Galilei- Discovered the law of the pendulum, tested Aristotle's law on gravity and proved it wrong, wrote a series of newspapers called the "Starry Messenger" which was about his observations of the universe.
6. Scientific Method- A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
7. Francis Bacon- An English politican and writer, that believed scientists should gather conclusions using the experimental  method.
8. Rene Descartes- Developer of analytical geometry and relied on mathematics and logic for conclusions.
9. Issac Newton- An English scientist who also disapproved of Aristotle's conclusions, published his ideas that all physical objects were affected equally by the same forces, the same forces ruled the motions of the planets, the pendulum, and all matter on earth and in space in a work called "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".

Question 2
1.Copernicus published the heliocentric theory.
2.Vesalius published the human anatomy textbook.
3.Brahe discovered the nova which proved Aristotle's idea that the universe is unchanging wrong.
4.Janssen invented the microscope.
5.Kelper published the first two laws of planetary motion.
6.Galileo published the "Starry Messenger".
7.Bacon's book "Novum Organum" encouraged the experimental method.
8.Descartes's book "Discourse on Method sets forth his scientific method of reasoning from the basis of doubt.
9.Torricelli inventing the barometer.
10.Boyle's Law
11.Newton publishing the law of gravity.
12.Fahrenheit inventing the mercury thermometer.