Editing Scientific Revolution (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Scientific Revolution''' — The transition from medieval/classical views of nature to modern scientific methods and theories (c. 1543–1687).
* '''Heliocentrism''' — The astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun; proposed by Copernicus.
* '''Geocentrism''' — The earlier model (Ptolemaic) where the Earth was the center of the universe.
* '''Empiricism''' — The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience and observation.
* '''Scientific Method''' — A systematic process of observation, hypothesis, experiment, and refinement.
* '''Inductive Reasoning''' — Deriving general principles from specific observations (championed by Francis Bacon).
* '''Deductive Reasoning''' — Starting with a general principle and deducing specific consequences (championed by René Descartes).
* '''Telescope''' — An optical instrument that allowed Galileo to observe the moons of Jupiter and phases of Venus.
* '''Principia Mathematica''' — Isaac Newton's 1687 work that laid out the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
* '''Circulation of Blood''' — Discovered by William Harvey, overturning centuries of Galenic medical thought.
* '''Barometer''' — Invented by Evangelista Torricelli to measure atmospheric pressure.
* '''Microscope''' — Allowed Robert Hooke and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to discover the world of cells and microbes.
* '''Calculus''' — A new branch of mathematics developed independently by Newton and Leibniz.
* '''Alchemy''' — The medieval precursor to chemistry; many "scientists" like Newton were also alchemists.
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