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