World Socials 6

By: Leonard Chapman 13705/2021

Assesment:

1: Term & Names

• geocentric theory: Is an theory that situates the earth like the center of our solar system.

• Scientific Revolution: The scientific revolution is a concept used to explain the emergence of
science during the beginning of the Modern Age.

• heliocentric theory: Is a astronomic model that reprecents that the sun is the center of our solar
system-

• Galileo Galilei: Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, and
physicist, closely associated with the Scientific Revolution.

• scientific method: The scientific method is a methodology to obtain new knowledge, which has
historically characterized science.

• Isaac Newton: Isaac Newton was an English physicist, theologian, inventor, alchemist, and
mathematician. He is the author of the Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica, better known
as the Principia, where he describes the law of universal gravitation and established the foundations
of classical mechanics through the laws.

3: Before the 1500s, who and what were the final authorities with regard to most knowledge?

Was the institutions, because they will theach the next generations.

4: How did the heliocentric theory of the universe differ from the geocentric theory?

The heliocentric theory explains and demonstrates why the earth is not the center of our solar
system and the sun is, and the geocentric theory thinks why the center of the solar system is the
earth.

7: Why might institutions of authority tend to reject new ideas?

I think they can't stand being contradicted since they were the authority.