Notable Figures and Ideas of the Scientific Revolution

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