The Scientific Revolution Crossword Activity
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- 2. The invention of this object around 1590 allowed biologists to explore a new world that had previously been invisible.
- 4. Proposed the laws of universal gravitation as well as the three laws of motion; his work would provide the foundation of modern physics.
- 5. Early scientists called themselves "natural _____ "
- 6. For more than 2,000 years European scientists believed that a person's health depended on a balance of four body fluids called these.
- 8. His work with gasses led him to propose that all matter is made up of smaller particles that join together in different ways.
- 10. Greek mathematicians Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes developed theories on which this modern subject is based.
- 11. Theory that placed the Earth at the center of the universe with the sun, moon, and plants, all moving in a circular path around it.
- 13. Most classical knowledge survived in this empire after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 CE.
- 14. Hooke and Boyle's works greatly advanced the fields of biology and ______.
- 15. From this country, Muslim scholars adopted mathematical concepts such as the decimal system, the number zero, and the Arabic numerals.
- 16. Added to the heliocentric theory that the planets had elliptical orbits rather than circular ones.
- 18. This movement began in Europe around the mid-1500s an introduced great advances in science.
- 20. An Englishman who wrote a book called New Instrument that urged scientists to gather data by following specific steps.
- 23. A Polish scientist whose theory challenged the long-held view of the Earth as the center of the universe.
- 24. A proposed explanation for a set of facts.
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- 1. A logical procedure for developing and testing ideas.
- 3. Theory that states that the sun is at the center of the universe.
- 7. In this school of thought, observation, experimentation, and mathematical reasoning replaced ancient wisdom and church teachings as the source of scientific knowledge.
- 9. Was condemned by the Catholic Church in 1633 and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life for his support of the heliocentric theory.
- 12. Muslims built these special buildings to help study the stars using scientific instruments.
- 17. Was the first scientist to describe cells.
- 19. Ancient Greeks often based their scientific explanations on this instead of evidence.
- 21. One of the key steps of the scientific method is the forming of this, an explanation that can be tested.
- 22. French philosopher who believed that everything should be doubted until it was proven by reason.