The Scientific Revolution

1. The scientific study of matter, its properties, and how different substances interact and change, such as when they mix, react, or form new substances.
4. The scientific study of living things, including plants, animals, and microorganisms, and how they grow, function, and interact.
5. a Italian astronomer that improved our knowledge about our solar system.
6. A new way of thinking about the natural world, based in careful observation and a willingness to question beliefs
8. An English philosopher from the 1500s–1600s who helped develop the scientific method, which uses observation and experiments instead of just trusting old ideas.
11. The organization that threatened Galileo when he proved that the earth was not the center of the solar system
12. the theory that the earth was at the center of the solar system
16. a polish astronomer and mathematician who formed the heliocentric theory
17. a mathematician who discovered analytical geometry, which connected algebra and geometry
18. a astronomer who recorded accurate data on the movement of the planets for many years
19. a German astronomer and mathematician who discovered the laws that explain how planets move around the Sun.

2. The theory the sun is the center of the solar system and all planets orbit it
3. A tool used to magnify small structures and organisms, first created by a Dutch eyeglass maker Zacharias Janssen
7. the force that acts on all matter that attracts them to each other
9. A Dutch scientist from the 1600s who improved the microscope and was the first to see tiny living things like bacteria and cells, helping start microbiology
10. a logical procedure for gathering and testing new ideas
13. The study of space, including stars, planets, moons, and galaxies, and how they move and exist in the universe.
14. a mathematician and physicist that discovered the laws of motion
15. A scientist from the 1500s who studied the human body by doing real dissections and wrote an important book that made anatomy more accurate.