The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Andreas Vesalius

Accurately describing how the circulatory system works and the function of each of its parts

Pierre Fauchard

<p>A process in which a phenomenon is identified based on observation, a hypothesis is provided, and then the hypothesis is confirmed or refuted through experimentation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formulated the Laws of Motion and the Law of Universal Gravitation, discovered that white light could be separated into various colors through a prism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developed Analytic Geometry (Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat), laid the foundations for integral and differential calculus (Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz), laid the foundations of the Theory of Probability and made contributions to Combinatorics (Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main characteristics of the Scientific Revolution were the reliance on observation, experimentation, and reason to generate new knowledge, as well as the challenge to traditional beliefs and authority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nicolaus Copernicus's publication, which claimed that the Sun was the center of the universe, went against the Church's belief that the Earth was the center. This challenged the authority of the Church and sparked a change in thinking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Enlightenment was a scientific and cultural movement that questioned the power of absolute monarchies and emphasized the use of reason to achieve new knowledge. It began in the 18th century and ended in the 19th century.</p> Signup and view all the answers