Scientific Revolution Review Pt. 1

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