Lesson4 - 1 - Intellectual Revolution - Copernican and Darwinian
Lesson4 - 1 - Intellectual Revolution - Copernican and Darwinian
revolution:
Copernican and Darwinian
what is an intellectual
revolution?
refer to Greek speculation about the "nature" in the
period before Socrates (roughly 600 to 400 BCE).
showed how society was transformed by science
and technology.
Intellectual revolution refers to series of events
that led to the emergence of modern science and
more current scientific thinking across critical
periods in history. It is also the period where
paradigm shifts occurred.
CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY
Famous Greek philosopher and
astronomer.
Stated that the planets, the sun,
and the moon moved in a circular
motion around the Earth-
existence of days and nights.
GEOCENTRISM/GEOCENTRIC
MODEL
a superseded description of
the Universe with Earth at
the center.
under the Geocentric model,
the Sun, Moon, Stars, and
planets all orbited Earth.
supported by Aristotle and
Ptolemy.
NICHOLAS
COPERNICUS
a Polish mathematician and
astronomer.
developed his model of a
Sun-centered universe.
explained the daily and
yearly motion of the sun
and stars in the universe.
COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
is a major shift of worldwide views
from believing that the Earth is the
center of the universe to believing the
Sun centered solar system which is
proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus.
HELIOCENTRISM/HELIOCENTRIC
MODEL the center of the solar
system is not the Earth
but actually the sun.
started the birth of
modern astronomy,
scientific revolution,
and the transformation
of society's thoughts
and beliefs.
Intellectual people who provided facts and evidences that
supports the heliocentric theory: