Scientific Revolution Vocabulary
Across
- 6. the force of attraction between all masses in the universe
- 8. Most important scientist of the scientific revolution, first person to study the sky with a telescope.
- 10. Greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived, created laws about gravity and motion.
- 11. an instrument used to view distant objects
- 12. a theory that places the sun at the center of the solar system.
Down
- 1. modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world
- 2. a step-by-step method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific assumptions
- 3. a belief in reason and logic as the primary paths to knowledge
- 4. German astronomer, mapped the orbits of the planets
- 5. Polish astronomer, wrote on the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
- 7. a theory that Earth is the center of the solar system or the universe.
- 9. idea or assumption to be tested in an experiment