Scientific Revolution

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  1. 5. The “field of study” focused on creating gold and the philosopher’s stone.
  2. 9. This natural philosopher, Johannes __________ determined the mathematical calculations for the movement of the planets.
  3. 10. Nicolaus __________ put forth the new, almost correct, way of looking at the solar system and had it published as he was dying.
  4. 12. The Greek scholar/physician, Galen, was the basis of medicine for thousands of years even though he was often wrong. An English physician, William Harvey, looked for mechanical explanations for how the body works and was the first to figure out that the heart is a ____________.
  5. 16. With the discovery of these orbiting around Jupiter, the Earth was clearly no longer the center of everything.
  6. 17. The _________ church stood in the way of scientific progress and it took them until 1992 to acknowledge that they persecuted scientists unfairly and too much during the Renaissance.
  7. 18. These ideas, from the “first scientist” in ancient Greece, had ruled how humans thought about the universe worked for 2000 years, but many were overturned during the scientific revolution of the Renaissance.
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  1. 1. In addition to “Renaissance Man”, another word for someone who studies and excels in many fields.
  2. 2. The perfection and unchanging nature of the universe was challenged by the observation of ________ on the moon.
  3. 3. The scientific revolution started in this field of study that looks at planets, stars, and other “heavenly” bodies.
  4. 4. This revolutionary idea about the center of the universe placed the sun in the middle (or close to it).
  5. 6. Some call him the “father of modern science” and he made many observations of the solar system using the telescopes that he made. The church put him under house arrest for years until he died.
  6. 7. The old _____________ model, as explained by Ptolemy, put the earth at the center of the universe.
  7. 8. The belief that the location and movement of the planets affect your health, life, and luck.
  8. 11. Sir Francis Bacon is called the “father of _________” which argues that scientific knowledge should be based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He argued science could be achieved using a skeptical and methodical approach, so he is also called the “father of the scientific method.”
  9. 13. Renee _________ was a philosopher (I think therefore I am) but also made significant strides in scientific thinking and thought that finding a fundamental truth and proceeding with logic would open the way to all science. Also the X, Y grid used for graphing is named after him.
  10. 14. The traditional fields of physics, like gravity, (before Einstein, relativity, and quantum theory) is called _________, after the late Renaissance scientist who also invented calculus.
  11. 15. The old model of the universe had perfect, circular orbits, and was composed of _______ spheres.