Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment

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  1. 3. The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space and the scientific field where the Scientific Revolution began.
  2. 4. English politician, writer who formalized the scientific method of investigation
  3. 5. Flemish scientist who pioneered the study of anatomy and provided detailed overviews of the human body and its systems.
  4. 8. proposed by Copernicus it was the belief that the sun was the center of the universe
  5. 11. The idea that the earth is the center of the cosmos and the sun rotates around it
  6. 12. German Scientist who wrote 3 laws of planetary motion based on mechanical relationships and accurately predicted movements of planets in a sun-centered universe as elliptical and not circular.
  7. 14. historical changes in thought & belief as well as changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus and ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727),
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  1. 1. A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
  2. 2. American enlightenment figure who was a scientist and inventor. Made important discoveries in electricity and meteorology. Invented bifocals, odometer, & lightening rod
  3. 6. Irish scientist that helped found the modern science of chemistry.
  4. 7. English scientist who was the first known person to describe the circulation of blood through veins and arteries in 1628, and he was the first to explain that the heart worked like a pump. He also explained the function of its muscles and valves.
  5. 9. French philosopher and scientist, credited with the establishment of Cartesian geometry and used deductive reasoning from to understand scientific laws and is credited with the founding of Deism.
  6. 10. Polish scientist who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos as opposed to geo-centric (earth-centered) cosmos and began scientific movement designed to focus on scientific discovery rather than tradition or superstition to explain the physical world
  7. 11. Italian scientist credited for improving the telescope and using it to support Copernicus's heliocentric theory
  8. 13. An English scholar and mathematician regarded as the father of physical science.He shared credit for the creation of calculus, the laws gravity and the fundamental laws of motion.