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  • Aristotle tried to organize the world in a scientific way

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  • Ideas were based on what they saw

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  • Arabs and Indians = math

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  • Aristotle’s wanted to organize the world in a scientific way

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  • Ideas were based on what they saw

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  • Arabs and Indians advanced math
  • Ptolemy thought the stars spun around the earth

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  • Geocentric theory = Earth is the center of the universe.

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Ancient Greeks left a lot of scientific knowledge

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Greeks did not experiment or test new ideas

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Middle Ages focused only on religion

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Arabs/Persians/Indians combined science and math

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Hindu-Arabic system of numbers replaced roman numerals

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Discovered that Sun was the center of universe

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Galileo trusted in experimentation, made the clock and telescope

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Isaac Newton=English mathematician, discovered gravity

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Knowledge of medicine improves

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Discovery of gases: hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen

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Through reason (not religion), you can learn how the universe works

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Sir Francis Bacon= scientific method

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Rene Descartes= believed Math was key to scientific knowledge