Discoveries and Inventions

Inventing the telescope

Discovering craters and mountains on the moon

Proving that moons orbit Jupiter

Developing the steam engine

For claiming the earth rotates around the sun

For inventing the telescope

For writing about the law of gravity

For refusing to use experiments

He was the first person to routinely use experiments to test theories

He experimented with light

He proved that Copernicus was wrong about planets’ orbits

His theories became laws

The laws explained how to use calculus

The laws explained how the physical world worked

The laws were proven using a telescope

The laws were published in Principia Mathematica

the telescope

the thermometer

the barometer

the microscope

Measuring air pressure

Calculating distances

Measuring temperature

Magnifying objects

Microscope

Thermometer

Telescope

Barometer

traditional ways of thinking.

the ideas of the classic philosophers.

the authority of the Church.

observation and experimentation.

Galileo.

Isaac Newton.

Kepler.

van Leeuwenhoek.

Rene Descartes

Isaac Newton

John Locke

Galileo Galilei

Ask a question

Construct a hypothesis

Test with an experiment

Ignore results

Conflicts between the Roman Catholic Church and scientists

Conflicts between different scientific groups

Conflicts between monarchs and philosophers

Conflicts between artists and scientists

It supported the Church's teachings

It contradicted the Church's teachings

It was ignored by the Church

It was promoted by Church officials

Telescope

Steam engine

Telephone

Electric light bulb

Scientific ideas improved people’s lives. This weakened the Church’s power

Science contradicted Church teachings. This weakened the Church’s power

Galileo did not follow the Church. His teachings opposed the Church

Copernicus, Newton, and Bacon were not religious. They only believed in reason