Notable Figures and Ideas of the Scientific Revolution
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- 3. Former Student and assistant of Tycho Brahe, who determined that planets orbited in an elliptical manner
- 5. Galileo is often considered the "Father of Modern ________"
- 6. The path something travels around a star, planet, or moon.
- 7. A specific shape suggested on how the planets orbit in a more oval shape.
- 9. The idea that the sun is the center of the solar system
- 10. Considered father of modern physics, defined gravity in his book "principia" (last name)
- 11. Wrote the book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres" in 1543 introducing a heliocentric model of the solar system
- 12. Credited with ideas that led to the creation of the scientific method
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- 1. Descartes is often considered the "Father of Modern ________"
- 2. Improved the telescope and was able to see the four moons of Jupiter, furthering the heliocentric theory
- 4. Famous for his answer to the question of existence, "I think, therefore I am"
- 8. The idea that the Earth is the center of the solar system