Scientific revolution
Across
- 3. sun-centered
- 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.
- 7. earth-centered
- 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.
- 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
- 10. an english politician and writer, developed the scientific method
Down
- 1. helped bring together (Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo) breakthroughs under a single theory of motion.
- 2. A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
- 4. French philosopher and mathematician, he developed analytical geometry which linked algebra and geometry.
- 6. A Polish cleric and astronaut.