Scientific Revolution

5. Developed by Galileo,states that corresponding causes produce corresponding affects throughout the universe.
6. studied physics, specifically the laws of gravity and motion, and invented the telescope and microscope.
8. describes the theory on the organization of the universe presented by Ptolemy of ancient Greece,claims that the earth is the center of the solar system and that the sun and other planets orbit around it.
9. come up with the laws of planetary motion, which explained the orbital properties of planets, and factored extensively into Isaac Newton's later work.
10. ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician, his geocentric views on the structure of the universe dominated astronomy until the Scientific Revolution.

1. presented the heliocentric theory, which rested on the revolutionary notion that the Earth orbited the sun.
2. broad term used to refer to the traditional view of the world expressed during the age of Aristotle by the ancients, and maintained and modified by the Church.
3. posed by Nicolas Copernicus, that the Earth is simply one of several planets which orbit the sun.
4. proved that only a part of the air is used in respiration and combustion, and is thus credited with the discovery of oxygen.
7. formulated an accurate comprehensive model of the workings of the universe based on the law of universal gravitation.