The Scientific Revolution

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What is 'reason'?

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Using logic and evidence to form thoughts and solve problems

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What's a THEORY?

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An explanation for how or why something happens.

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Who said that the universe revolves around the Earth?

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Ptolemy

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The idea of a universe that revolves around the Earth is called:

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geocentric

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The idea that the solar system revolves around the sun is called:

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heliocentric

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What DOES our solar system revolve around?

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the sun

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The ancient Greeks and Romans had ideas about how the universe worked, but they didn't:

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perform experiments

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On what did ancient Greeks and Romans base their ideas of how the universe worked?

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common sense

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How did that work out for the Greeks and Romans, just trying to use common sense?

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It led to a lot of incorrect ideas.

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In the 1500s, Europeans figured out that scientists had to use mathematics and experiments to make advances. This realization was called:

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The Scientific Revolution.