The Scientific

Revolution
By Skylar Vanhecke, Allee Cumbus
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 Causes
What caused the revolution?
04 Outcomes
What was the desired outcome
and the real outcome?

02 People
Who were involved?
05 Events
What significant events
occurred?

03 Importance
Why is this revolution
important to know about?
 01
THE CAUSES
What caused the revolution?
 What Caused The
Scientific Revolution?
The initial cause of the Scientific Revolution was when Nicolaus Copernicus
suggested the Earth revolved around the Sun, and not the other way around.
The church posed major opposition to this theory, despite it being more
accurate than the old way of thinking.

Another major factor in causing the Scientific Revolution was the general
public’s acceptance of knowing that we don’t know everything. By realizing
that there was stuff they didn’t know and accepting their ignorance, it
allowed humans to be more open to learning new things.
 What Caused The
Scientific Revolution?
Another major cause that sparked this revolution was the initial discovery of
America by the Europeans. Correlating with one of the previously mentioned
causes, the discovery of an entirely new continent proved the European’s
ignorance to new places and ideas. They were motivated them to conquer
these places, and in order to do so, they had to collect data and information
on the geography, plants, animals, climate, and cultures of this new land.
"The universe is rational and
based on mathematics."

-Galileo Galilei
 02
THE PEOPLE
Who were involved?
 Robert Boyle
Who is robert boyle
Robert Boyle FRS was a natural philosopher, chemist,
physicist, and inventor of Anglo-Irish ancestry. Boyle is
often considered as the first modern chemist, making him
one of the founding fathers of modern chemistry as well as
a pioneer of contemporary experimental scientific
technique.
What did he discover?
Robert Boyle is credited with discovering the renowned
Boyle's law, which states that the volume of a gas reduces
as pressure increases and vice versa. He was a strong
supporter of the scientific method and was a renowned
scientist and intellectual of his time.
 Rene Descartes

Who is Rene Descartes?

René Descartes was a French
philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and
lay Catholic who developed analytic
geometry, which brought together the hitherto
disparate sciences of geometry and algebra.
What did he do?
He is known as the father of analytic geometry, a
link between algebra and geometry that was crucial
in the development of infinitesimal calculus and
analysis. Descartes was also a pivotal player
throughout the Scientific Revolution.
 Johannes Kepler
Who is Johannes Kepler?
astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural
philosophy, and music writer Johann Kepler was a
German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural
philosopher, and music writer. He is most known for his
principles of planetary motion and his publications
Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome
Astronomiae Copernicanae, which he wrote during the
17th century Scientific Revolution.

What did he do?

Johannes Kepler's three laws of planetary motion are his most famous works.
These are the laws: Planets orbit each other in elliptical orbits. A line
connecting a planet and the Sun covers the same amount of ground in the
same amount of time. The radius of a planet's orbit is related to how long it
takes it to orbit the Sun.
 03
THE IMPORTANCE
Why is this revolution important to know about?
 IMPORTANCE
Developments
The Scientific Revolution led to the modern way of thinking to discover
new things and create new inventions. It has allowed for important
developments in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and
astronomy. It was the gateway to modern-day thinking and has allowed
humans to get where they are today.

Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution was important to the development of the
individualistic values in the Enlightenment since it showed the power of
the human mind. It demonstrated how humans could come to their own
conclusions instead of just following a higher authority.
 04
THE OUTCOMES
What was the desired outcome and the real outcome?
 OUTCOMES

DESIRED OUTCOME REAL OUTCOME

The desired outcome of the Scientific
Revolution was to emphasize how
systematic experimentation was the
most valid research method over
believing that everything that had been
previously believed to be true, was still
true since it had always been that way.
The real outcome of the Scientific
Revolution was similar to that of the
desired outcome. It made a more accurate
way of obtaining information more
mainstream, and also led to many
important developments in several fields
of science and mathematics.
 05
THE EVENTS
What significant events occurred?
 UPCOMING EVENTS
Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica is
published by Isaac Newton. The Principia lays out
Newton's comprehensive model of the universe as
organized according to the law of universal December 04
gravity, and is arguably the most momentous Jupiter is the
event in the history of science.
biggest planet
1687

2 3 4
This published paper, which is thought August 29
to have been published between 1507
and 1514, fueled the Scientific
Mars is actually a
Revolution cold place
UPCOMING EVENTS

1. This published paper, which is thought to have been published

between 1507 and 1514, fueled the Scientific Revolution
2. Tycho writes about this new star he observed, making very
important publishing.
3. Thirty Years' War, was a series of European conflicts fought primarily in
Germany. The war started in Bohemia with a Protestant revolt against
the Holy Roman Empire and eventually involved almost all of the
countries of Europe.
4. The debate over whether scientific teaching ought to conform with
literalist interpretations of the Bible did not begin, as many
assume, with the trial of John Scopes in 1925.
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