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Chapter 7-8 (Scientific Revolution (Medieval View of the world…

- - - - Copernicus
        
        Proposed the idea of a heliocentric universe.
        
        Stars did not move
        
        Was condemned by both Catholics and protestants
      - Galileo
        
        Proved Copernicus's theory to be true
        
        Laws of motion
        
        Built his own telescope
        
        Church forced him to retract teachings
        
        Remained under house arrest for rest of life
      - Tycho Brahe
        
        Built an amazing Observatory
        
        Proved Copernicus's theory
      - Johannes Kepler
        
        Former assistant to Brahe
        
        Finished Brahe's work
        
        Three Laws of Planetary motion
      - Issac Newton
        
        Combined the theories of the below astronomers to write laws about the workings of the universe
        
        Theory of gravitational Pull
    - - Paracelsus
        
        Experimented with chemicals as medicine
      - Vesalius
        
        Dissected Cadavers
        
        Assembled human skeletons
        
        Amazing detail in drawings of human anatomy
      - William Harvey
        
        Explained the circulatory system
      - Leeuwenhoek
        
        Developed powerful Microscopes
    - - Francis Bacon
        
        Inducive method
      - Renes Descartes
        
        Deductive reasoning
        
        "Cogito ergo sum"
- - - - The palace at Versailles
        
        Absolutely massive
        
        Used to control the nobility
      - Divine Right Monarchy
      - Merchantilism
        
        very succesful economy led byJean Baptiste Colbert
      - Left france in HUGE debt, but as a world power
      - Wars
        
        War of spanish succession
        
        Louis wanted to take a title promised to his son early (king of Spain)
        
        Nine year, expensive war that did Nothing
        
        Dutch War
        
        Invaded Netherlands
        
        Gained many Flemish Towns
        
        Nine Years War
        
        Another invasion of Netherlands
        
        England joined against France
        
        Leauge of Augsburg
        
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        Overall:
        
        killed 1/5 of france population
        
        Massive debt
        
        Seeds of french revolution
    - - Laid foundation for Absolutism
      - Intendant System
      - Selling of Noble titles