The Scientific Revolution
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- 2. English writer and scientist who participated in debates about the ideas of the Scientific Revolution.
- 4. French surgeon who improved medical practices and developed better treatments for wounds.
- 7. This English thinker promoted using observation and experimentation to gain knowledge.
- 9. Galilei This Italian scientist used a telescope to make important observations that supported the heliocentric model.
- 11. This Danish astronomer made extremely accurate observations of the planets that helped Kepler develop his ideas.
- 15. Ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas about the natural world influenced European thought for centuries.
- 16. This astronomer proposed that the Sun, not Earth, was at the center of the universe.
- 18. This English physician discovered that the heart pumps blood throughout the body.
- 19. A branch of mathematics developed by Newton and Leibniz that helps explain change and motion.
- 20. A model of the universe that places Earth at the center.
- 21. Kepler This scientist used Brahe's observations to show that planets move in elliptical orbits.
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- 1. The scientific study of stars, planets, and other objects in space.
- 3. This French thinker emphasized using reason and mathematics to understand the natural world.
- 5. This scientist studied human anatomy through dissections and corrected errors in earlier anatomical knowledge.
- 6. Ancient Greek astronomer who developed a geocentric model of the universe.
- 8. This scientist studied gases and helped establish chemistry as a modern science.
- 10. A testable explanation or educated guess about a question.
- 12. A model of the universe that places the Sun at the center.
- 13. The force that attracts objects toward one another, including objects toward Earth.
- 14. Method A systematic process scientists use to investigate questions and test ideas.
- 17. This scientist developed laws of motion and universal gravitation.