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Key Concept

New ideas and methods led to discoveries of how the universe functions and how knowledge should be attained. These developments led to conflict with the established church authority and the shift from religious to scientific sources as the basis of truth.

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Important Files

Scientific Revolution Study Guide
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Homework Assignments

Assignment 1: Background to Science

• MindTap: Our Place in Space
• Answer study guide questions 1-3 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 476-481
  • Turning Points in History - Scientific Revolution
• Key terms 1-2
• MindTap: Background to the Scientific Revolution

Assignment 2: Astronomical Science

• Answer study guide questions 4-6 using:
  • Spielvogel 481-488
  • Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution
  • Tycho Brahe: The Scandalous Astronomer
  • Newton's Laws
• Key terms 3-4
• MindTap: New Models of the Cosmos

​Assignment 3: Anatomical and Medical Science

• Answer study guide question 7 using:
  • Spielvogel 488-490
• Key terms 5-6
• Additional terms 1-2
• MindTap: Medicine and Chemistry during the Scientific Revolution

Assignment 4: The Scientific Method and Superstition

• Answer study guide questions 8-10 using:
  • Spielvogel 493-498
  • Philosophy: Rene Descartes
  • Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Key terms 7-11
• MindTap: Descartes and Rationalism
• MindTap: The Scientific Method

​Assignment 5: Studying for the test

• Review notes and study guide
• MindTap: Overlapping Developments during the Seventeenth Century
• MindTap: Chapter 16 Quiz
• Practice questions on pages 501A-501B
• Watch my live review session

Interesting Articles

• Blackbeard's Ship Confirmed off North Carolina

Primary Sources

• David Davies, The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered - page 552
• The Leeds Woolen Workers' Petition - page 554