Scientific Revolution Inventions
Across
- 2. of Falling Bodies / Galileo's experiment that disproved that heavier bodies fell faster than lighter ones.
- 3. of Comets / Edmund Halleys predicted the movement of a comet using Newtons three laws of motion.
- 5. / Isaac Newton's help to create a branch of math that explains how movement works.
- 6. Geometry / Rene Descartes invented a way to express geometric shapes and a coordinate. Isaac newton developed calculus based on it.
- 7. / The sun was the center of the universe was Nicolaus Copernicus idea.
- 10. Lens / It was used to magnify images.
- 12. of Gravity / The story of apple falling on Newton's head that inspired this law.
- 14. Laws of Motion / Rules of how the universe moves, published by Isaac Newton.
- 15. / Imperfections observed by Galileo Galilei proved the view that the heavens were imperfect.
- 16. Microscope / Galileo made this ore efficient.
- 18. Spectrum / Isaac Newton split white light into colored light.
- 20. / Galileo invented a version of this that allowed him to view the stars and Jupiter's moons.
Down
- 1. / Galileo mentored physicist Evangelista Torricelli, who designed a device to measure air pressure.
- 4. and comets / When Tycho Brahe observed the changing stars in the sky.
- 8. Moons /
- 9. / It was studied by Aristotle and the ancient Chinese. It helped navigators find their way.
- 11. Orbits / Kepler discovered that planets moved in this kind of orbit, not in perfect circles as the Ancient Greeks believed.
- 13. of Light / Galileo proved light traveled faster than sound.
- 17. / It was studied by Aristotle and the ancient Chinese. It helped navigators find their way.
- 19. Tides / Galileo theorized this was caused by the sun.