Scientific Revolution
Across
- 5. Greek philosopher that taught that man should look past simple appearances to learn natures truth
- 8. An evolved step-by-step process of discovery
- 10. The force that keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun
- 11. Frenchman that rejected Aristotle's scientific assumptions. He emphasized human reasoning
- 14. Engilshman that rejected Aristotle's scientific assumptions. He stressed experimentation and observation
- 16. Sun-centered
- 18. Greek philosopher whose reasoning of planets was wrong
- 19. A branch or mathematics partially developed by Newton and used to explain his laws
Down
- 1. German astronomer and mathematician
- 2. A possible explanation scientists used reasoning
- 3. English scholar that was the first to describe the circulation of blood
- 4. English chemist who refined the alchemists' view of chemicals as basic building blocks
- 6. Built an astronomical telescope in Italy
- 7. Polish scholar that published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- 9. Danish astronomer, provided evidence proving Copernicus's theory
- 12. Oval-shaped orbit
- 13. By the age of 24 he formed a theory to explain why the planets moved they way they do
- 15. Ancient writer who thought the earth was the center of the universe
- 16. A belief or teaching considered unacceptible by a religious group
- 17. A Dutch invention, designed to see distant enemy ships