Scientific Revolution

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Origins

Accomplishments

Geographic Diffusion

Historical developments  

Location of the Italian Peninsula 

• movement of resources
  
• knowledge
  
• culture
  
• throughout Italy’s independent trade cities. 

Johannes Gutenberg

• printing press
  
• growth of literacy
  
• diffusion of knowledge. 

 
 Heliocentric and Geocentric theories

• Compare
  
• Contrast
  
• Greeks (geocentric)
  
• Copernicus (heliocentric)

Galileo

• theories
  
• improvement of scientific tools
  
• telescope
  
• microscope.