Across
- 3. considered the founder of microbiology
- 4. English philosopher that believed scientists should not rely on ancient authorities
- 6. publication by Johannes Kepler
- 7. a scholar or a thinker
- 12. the theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation
- 14. one of Newton’s three rules of motion; it explains that planetary bodies continue in elliptical orbits around the sun because every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called gravity
- 15. the father of modern rationalism
- 16. any of the concentric, revolving, spherical transparent shells in which, the stars, sun, planets, and moon are set
Down
- 1. a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world
- 2. Earth-centered
- 5. the man born in England in 1642 and is often considered the greatest genius of the Scientific Revolution
- 8. sun-centered; the system of the universe in which the planets, including Earth, revolve around the sun
- 9. the man that the Church ordered him to abandon the Copernican idea
- 10. a process that will lead to correct general principles
- 11. Polish publisher of the book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- 13. the philosopher that published under her own name at a time when many female writers had to publish anonymously.