THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
汇报人：KIRA LYNNE ZINA
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目录
CONCENT
01 ·Science 02 ·Philosophy,Politics and Literature in England
03 ·Descartes;French Classicism
04 ·Art
idea and discovered
three laws of planetary
motion, collectively
known as "Kepler's
Laws."
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Galileo Galilei
• Galileo's observations from the telescope confirmed Copernicus 'assumption.
• The new science and philosophy gave a great push to the political struggle waged by the newly emerged class,the bourgeoisie,and other classes.The seventeenth century saw the intense political struggle,shown in revolution in England and absolute monarchy in France ,which marked the growth of modern state power.
• The microscope was invented in 1590,the telescope was invented in 1608 by a Dutchman and the pendulum clock appeared in 1656.
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Two Merits Shared by the Great Scientists of the 17th Century
• Second ,they all had immense patience in observation .They put their hypotheses to tests and drew conclusions on the basis of patient observation and careful collection of facts.
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Science
From Copernicus to Kepler
Galileo Galilei
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Sir Isaac Newton
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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From Copernicus to Kepler
• Copernicus's "The Theory of Celestial Movement" marks the separation of natural sciences from theology.
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Sir Isaac Newton
• Newton used Galileo's discovery to obtain the law of universal gravitation, which laid the foundation for the development of modern science.
• Galileo was the ancestor of dynamics in physics. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of falling bodies.
• He discovered the law of inertia and the law of falling bodies.
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General Introduction
• In the 17th century Europe advanced from the Middle Ages to the modern times. This advance began in science ,in astronomy,physics and pure mathematics,oing to the work of Galileo,Keoler,Newton and Descartes.Their work helped to creat modern science and in a sense,the modern world.
• Kepler was the first important scientist after Copernicus to adopt the theory of the Sun Center.
• Kepler proved ,
developed and
corrected Copernicus's
• First,they showed boldness in farming hypotheses.they had the courage to challenge the deep-rooted beliefs and assume that what had been accepted as true since ancient times might be false.
• Newton and another important scientist, Leibniz, are the founders of calculus.
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
• Leibniz divides human understanding into selfconsciousness, consciousness, and subconscious.
• This theory laid the foundation for Freud's psycnvention of New Instruments
• The 17th century was remarkable in many other ways connected with science.The invention of many scientific instruments was another great progress.