Scientific Revolution Elliott Pratte

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Across
  1. 1. science that encompasses the study of all extraterrestrial objects and phenomena.
  2. 4. mathematical and experimental technique employed in the sciences.
  3. 5. science concerned with the genesis and propagation of light
  4. 7. the rational, abstract, and methodical consideration of reality as a whole or of fundamental dimensions of human existence and experience.
  5. 12. period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages and conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values
  6. 13. device used to form magnified images of distant objects
  7. 14. involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory
  8. 15. any of a class of exploding stars whose luminosity temporarily increases from several thousand to as much as 100,000 times its normal level.
  9. 17. an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who was beset known for the Ptolemaic system.
  10. 18. any relatively large natural body that revolves in an orbit around the Sun or around some other star
Down
  1. 1. an Italian philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician best know for pioneering the use of the telescope.
  2. 2. any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation.
  3. 3. the science that deals with the properties, composition, and structure of substances
  4. 6. science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe
  5. 8. science concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces, including the special case in which a body remains at rest.
  6. 9. an English physicist and mathematician who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.
  7. 10. an ancient philosopher and teacher of Aristotle.
  8. 11. any action that tends to maintain or alter the motion of a body or to distort it.
  9. 12. in physics, the change in direction of a wave passing from one medium to another caused by its change in speed
  10. 16. an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument