Monday, September 10, 2007

scientific revolution, scientific method

Scientific revolution begun in the 1543. Historians use scientific revolution to describe deep changes in intellectual thoughs that occur in 16th to 17th century. ancient greeeks and christianity though earth was the center of the universe, and everything else rotated around earth. now thanks to the scientific revolution we know that is wrong. this is called the scientific method, the way scientist learn and study the world around them. when scientist has an idea or a theory they dont first accept it, they make various experiments to prove or disprove this idea and come with a conclusion. this require observation, analysis, hypothesis building, hypothesis testing, and a scientific theory. isaac newton was a great scientist who follow the scientific method, and proved wrong aristotle theory, that one set of physical laws govern the earth and another the rest of the universe.

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