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- 2. The Age of ____ is when people went out to try to discover new lands.
- 4. This explorer sailed West using Ptolemy's map and realized it was wrong, he landed in the Americas.
- 5. This is the time period where people questioned views and ancient texts were translated. This was before the Scientific Revolution.
- 6. Galileo was the first scientist to routinely use ___ to test his theories.
- 9. He was a Polish astronomer who started the Scientific Revolution.
- 11. He was a German astronomer who determined that the planets moved in an elliptical orbit.
- 12. He was an Italian astronomer who was the first to study the sky with a telescope.
- 15. The ____ theory was an ancient theory that stated that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
- 17. This word means "knowledge" or "understanding" in Latin.
- 18. This is a series of events that led to the birth of modern science.
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- 1. The ____ theory was a theory proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus that stated that the Sun was at the center of the universe.
- 3. This was a group of priests whose job it was to find and punish anyone going against church teachings, the Roman ___.
- 7. Newton is known for identifying ___ theories. (spell the number)
- 8. This man was a Danish astronomer who spent his life observing the stars. He charted 750 of them.
- 10. One of the things Kepler discovered is that the human eye sees images ____ just like a camera.
- 13. Galileo discovered four of the moons that orbited this planet.
- 14. Galileo was accused of ___ and told to take back his teachings, which he eventually did.
- 16. He was an English scientist who published Principia Mathematica.
