Reformation and Scientific Revolution

6. Confirmed Copernicus' heliocentric hypothesis and determined that the orbits of the planets around the sun are elliptical, not circular.
7. Collected a lot of data about the movement of the planets but did not draw conclusions from his data.
8. The idea what Gog knows from before you are born whether you are going to heaven.
11. Was put on trial by the Catholic Church and forced to recant (take back) his belief in Copernicus' heliocentric theory.
12. Developed the idea of predestination.
13. Sold indulgences, which were supposed to reduce time spent in Purgatory after death.
15. Believed in the complete separation of church and state.
16. Discovered and explained the theory of gravity.

1. Swiss reformer who was influenced by the ideas of Luther.
2. Started the Protestant Reformation when he questioned the sale of indulgences.
3. One of the founders of the Scientific Method, he stressed observation and experimentation.
4. He developed a scientific law that said pressure applied to a confined liquid is transmitted undiminished in all directions.
5. Advanced knowledge of the human body through the study of anatomy.
6. Protestant reformer who founded the Scottish church.
9. The forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
10. Doubted everything he could not prove, using logic and reason to search for provable knowledge.
14. Proved that blood circulated through the body and is pumped by the heart.