Intellectuals Who Caused The Scientific Revolution

1. A Danish astronomer who is best known for the astronomical observations which led Kepler to his theories of the Solar system.
4. He developed analytical geometry, which linked algebra and geometry. This provided an important new tool for scientific research.
6. He concluded that certain mathematical laws govern planetary motions.
7. He was a British physician who introduced a vaccine to prevent smallpox.
8. He published a small book called Starry Messenger in 1610 and then he published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems in 1632.
12. He formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model of the universe, which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.
13. He created another scale for the mercury thermometer in 1741 and the scale showed freezing at 0°.

1. He created a law that explains how the volume, temperature, and pressure of gas affect each other.
2. A Dutch maker of eyeglasses that invented the first microscope.
3. He made the first thermometer to use mercury in glass, the thermometer showed water freezing at 32°.
5. His great discovery was that the same force ruled motion of the planets and all matter on earth and in space.
9. The Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C. that came up with the geocentric theory.
10. An English statesman and writer who urged scientists to experiment and then draw conclusions, which was called the experimental method.
11. He developed the first mercury barometer, a tool for measuring atmospheric pressure and predicting weather.