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- Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ation of the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These bounda...
3: ...totelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathematical]], [[mechanics|mechanical]], and [[empiricism|em...
9: ...irely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that tim...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though ...
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler) - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ... be many times more distant than [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]]'s orbit. Often described as "dirty snowballs...
15: ...the light that falls on it. It is thought that complex [[organic compound]]s are the dark surface mate...
21: ... star [[Nemesis (star)|Nemesis]]; or an unknown [[Planet X]].
23: ...being more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.
25: ...it it turns out to be an old "lost" comet. An example is Comet [[11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR]], which was ... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...ries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within ...
15: ...ose in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]").
23: ...he [[habit]]s and [[Abstraction|attributes]] of [[plant]]s and [[animal]]s in the world around him. He...
27: ...ment of]] [[agriculture]], which allowed for a surplus of food, it became possible for early [[Civiliz...
29: ...ture of the planets and stars, many theoretical explanations were proposed. - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...mental scientists of the [[seventeenth century]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolut...
4: ...ell]]'' -- so called because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also i...
8: ...resents Robert Hooke, and a seal used by Hooke displays a man's head that some have argued portrays Ho...
14: ...ompound microscope]], a design consisting of multiple lenses (usually three - an eyepiece, a field len...
20: ...ed Newton's presentation showing that [[prism]]s split white [[light]] rather than modifying it. Newto... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ho wrote the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (published [[5 July]] [[1687]]<sup id="fn_1_b...
4: ...athematical substantiation for [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by ar...
6: ...binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular m...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and ...
23: ...y closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague]]. For the next two years Newton worked at ho... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...] period in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which inc...
6: ...od, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] i...
8: ...sm | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] a...
12: ...purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think o...
14: ...r instability. Instead, (according to those that split the two periods), the Age of Reason sought to e... - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
18: ...positions of about 1,000 bright stars, tried to explain the puzzles of astronomy without refuting the ...
27: ...elopment of the [[heliocentric]] model. [[Tusi-couple]] resolves linear motion into the sum of two cir...
32: |[[Johannes Kepler]]
33: ...his ''[[Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion|Laws of Planetary Motion]]''.
36: ...ary motion. Predicted the orbits of the [[Planet|planets]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political phil...
6: ...René „escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
12: ...racted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommend...
16: ... Earl of Devonshire, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismisse...
20: ...showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or m... - Physics (25628 bytes)
4: ...al systems that obey the laws of physics. For example, chemistry is the science of [[molecule]]s and t...
6: ...mathematical physics]], devoted to developing the mathematical structure of physical theories.
15: ...erimentalists devise and perform experiments to explore new phenomena and test theoretical predictions...
38: ...hanics)|Hamiltonian]], [[Identical particles]], [[Planck's constant]], [[Quantum entanglement]], [[Qua...
42: | [[Equivalence principle]], [[Four-momentum]], [[Reference frame]], [[Spa... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ...esis|hypotheses]] and [[deduction]]s to propose explanations for natural phenomena in the form of [[th...
7: ...ry BC|1550 BC]]) contains incantations and foul applications created to cast out diseased demons and o...
9: ...y well established. In ''Protagoras'' (318d-f), [[Plato]] mentions the teaching of arithmetic, astrono...
11: ...fic tradition: [[empiricism]]. For Aristotle, the Platonic, universal ideal is to be found in particul...
15: :''"The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to k...
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