Scientific Revolution Review

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  1. 6. French philosopher and mathematician who emphasized human reasoning as the best road to understanding.
  2. 11. A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact
  3. 12. Danish astronomer whose work confirmed Copernicus’ observations
  4. 13. English philosopher who argued that truth could not be known at the beginning of a question, but only at the end of a long process of investigation
  5. 14. German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer whose work supported Copernicus’ heliocentric model of the solar system
  6. 16. Polish astronomer who discovered that Earth actually rotated around the Sun, and not the opposite.
  7. 17. The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass
  8. 18. Having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system, as proposed by Galileo
  9. 19. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars. Was threatened with death if he did not recant his discoveries, which the Catholic church found heretical.
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  1. 1. The 16th-century Flemish/Netherlandish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy
  2. 2. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
  3. 3. 17th century chemist who distinguished between individual elements and chemical compounds
  4. 4. The complete change or overthrow of a government, a social system, etc.
  5. 5. Along with Aristotle and Plato, this Ancient Greek philosopher conceived the first unified concept of the cosmos and Earth’s place in it.
  6. 7. Having or representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical systems
  7. 8. A method of procedure consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses
  8. 9. To say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical
  9. 10. The English scholar who described the circulation of blood for the first time
  10. 15. A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation