The Scientific Revolution affected the Enlightenment Era because of the scientific findings of Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Johannes Kepler inspiring people to change.
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Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
He proved that when you drop two things that weigh diffrent that they both hit the ground at the same time. -
Galileo demstrates gravity
He thought of new ways to look at things and proved that when you drop two things that are a diffrent weight they can both hit the ground at the same time -
Galileo Publishes Messenger of the Heavens
This was about the observations of the surfaces of the planets that he discovered -
Galileo
He used the surfaces of the planets and put them into a book so that people would know what the surfaces are like -
Johannes Kepler Reveals His Third and Final Law of Planetary Motion
He thought that the planets did not orbit around the earth. He thought that the planets orbited arounf the sun insted. -
Johannes Kepler
At that time everyone thought that the planets orbited around earth in a circle. Corpernicus thought diffrent and Johnnes Kepler proved his point. -
Galileo is Forced to Recant his Theories
He was on house arrest for the last 9 years of his life. He also was forced to sign a recantation. This made a period of restriction until the Enlightment. -
Copernicus and Galileo
"Copernicus and Galileo the two foremost casualties of theological interference, with Galileo placed under house arrest by the notorious Inquisition." (explorable) This started a perod of restrictions until the Enlightment. -
Isaac Newton's model
"Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) devised a physical model of the universe that tore apart the intricate models created by the Ancient Greeks, building his system upon gravity and mechanics and fuelling an explosion of humanistic thought." (explorable) -
Isaac Newton Publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Lays out him model of the universe according to gravitation -
Works Cited
"The Scientific Revolution." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2016.
History.com Staff. "Enlightment." History.com. A+E Networks, 2009. Web. 24 Mar. 2016.