Thursday, September 17, 2009

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

Scientific Revolution:
The scientific revolution is basically when people were discovering new ideas of science. Scientist had different theorys of how science worked. For example Issac Newton explained the law of gravity and how it worked. Aristotle was another scientist who had a theory. He said that heavier objects fell first and then the lighter objects fell. Galileo another proved him worng. He said that different size objects all fall at the same speed. Scientist would hear about theories and they would try to prove and disprove that there theroy actually worked. They used the scientific method in order for them to do that. They would do alot of experiments and obervations. Alot of scientist also believed that the earth is the center of the universe. After a while people started to find out that, that wasn't true.Alot of scientist got there ideas from the Romans and Greeks and also from the bible.
Experiment:
One example of an experiment that uses the scientific method is the one that Galileo did. Basically Aristotle said that heavier objects fall faster then lighter objects. Well Galileo decieded to prove him wronng. What he did was that he went to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and he started to throw rocks all of different sizes. He proved Aristotle wrong. All of the rocks fell at the same speed, it didn't matter if one was heavier then the other. This is an experiment thnat was conducted by Galileo that used the scientific method.


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