Scientific Revolution

4. Galileo public admitted that he had been wrong to avoid facing (7) as his poor health at 68 years of age would not have survived
5. Leonardo da Vincic is most famous for his art, especially the Mona Lisa, argyably the most famous of all paintings. But he also conducted (12) and experiments in many scientific fields as well as mathematics and music
7. The Church found it hard to crush (8) thinking, especially after printing helped ideas to spread
9. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discoveries in Europe in the fields of (7), astronomy and epistemology created what is considered a ‘scientific revolution’
12. Scientific ideas based on the study of nature and the universe radically altered understanding of the world, and overshadowed (8) and philosophy
14. The first portable (5) was made in 1410
15. The Venice government gave Galielo a well-paid job because his improvement of the telescope magnification could be used by (4) ships
16. In the early 1500s, the Polish scholar Nicolaus Copernicus used (12) theory to show that the sun (not the Earth) was at the centre of the universe
17. Galilei to his colleagues to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and (6) dropping one heavy and one light object, that they still hit the ground at the same time

1. Galilei experimental work showed that other (7) were similar to ours
2. Pare was a (6) and surgeon who developed new methods of treating war injuries and saved many lives by tying off arteries to reduce blood loss
3. Galileo’s book about (8) included a statement that the Earth revolved around the sun, contradicting the church teaching whish said the Earth was the centre of the universe
6. A century after scientist proved the Earth rotated on its axis once every day, and around the sun once a year, Italian astronomer Galielo Galilei built a (9) that enabled him to look at the stars
8. The Catholic Church did not officially accept Galileo’s teaching until 1992, when Pope John Paul II (12) that the scientist had been right, but offered no apology for his treatment
10. Girolamo Fracastoro discovered that disease contained tiny particles that spread (9) by direct contact rather than previous beliefs that plagues were God’s punishment for human sins
11. Isaac Newton, in England in the late 1600s, showed that the force of (7) exists in all material objects
13. Many (10) that Europeans adopted originated in Chian and had been in use for hundreds of years, including gunpowder, the compass and printing