Renaissance+and+Reformation+Science


 * ==Francis Bacon== || ==Copernican System== ||
 * [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg]] || [[image:Copernican_System.jpg]] ||  ||
 * This is an image of the great scientist Francis Bacon. Francis was born on January 22, 1561 in London. His family provided many connections to the political and cultural parts of England. At age 12 he entered Trinity College which is located in Cambridge. After two years of studying at Trinity College he completed his studies there and went on to study law at Gray's Inn. Then he left to go work with the English ambassador to France. After his father's death he returned to England and went back to Gray's Inn. In 1592 he made a collection of 10 essays that were on political behavior. This set of essays kept on enlarging into the year 1625. In 1603 he was knighted by James I and later was Named as a general. He produced many more books about science and through the years he advanced through the rankings in the political rankings. On Bacon's 60th birthday he was put in jail because he was accused by High Parliament. One person that agreed with most of Francis Bacon's beliefs was Frenchman Rene Descartes. They both disagreed with and rejected Aristotle's ideas. || This is an image of the heliocentric theory that was originally produced by Nicolas Copernicus. Heliocentric means that the sun is the center of the universe. Many people disagreed with this theory because it went against everything the church preaches. The church preached that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around the Earth as opposed to the Earth revolving around the sun. He published these ideas in a book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. A Danish astronomer by the name of Tycho Brahe proved that Copernicus was right and that he had evidence. He viewed the stars every day and recorded data in his observatory. Once Brahe died his partner Johannes Kepler continued on the proof and expanded the theory. He was a German astronomer and mathematician. He was able to calculate the orbit of each planet and it helped support Nicolas Copernicus' theory. ||