Scientific revolution

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  1. 3. sun-centered
  2. 5. a major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
  3. 7. earth-centered
  4. 8. a brilliant mathematician, and assistant to Tycho Brahe- who is a Danish astronomer. He discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are elliptical rather that circular.
  5. 9. Discovered the law of the pendulum. He was the scientist who built the first telescope and proved that planets and moons move. Persecuted for supporting Copernicus' ideas User-contributed
  6. 10. an english politician and writer, developed the scientific method
Down
  1. 1. helped bring together (Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo) breakthroughs under a single theory of motion.
  2. 2. A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
  3. 4. French philosopher and mathematician, he developed analytical geometry which linked algebra and geometry.
  4. 6. A Polish cleric and astronaut.