Scientific Revolution

A. Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist

B. Theorized the solar system was geocentric

1. Geocentric means the Earth is in the center and the sun, moon, and planets orbit the Earth.

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Heliocentric

1. Polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon.

2. Theorized the solar system is heliocentric

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)

1. The heliocentric model places the sun at the Center of the solar system.

2. Copernicus also theorized the planes orbit the sun in a perfectly circular orbit

1. Astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath

2. First to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn

1. He claimed Copernicus's heliocentric model was scientific law.

1. astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music

2. 3 Lawes of Planetary motion

3. Theorized planets orbits are NOT circular, but elliptical

1. mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author

2. Discoveries in optics (white light composition) and mathematics (calculus), it is his formulation of the three laws of motion—the basic principles of modern physics