Rileys Crossword

5. Proved the Heliocentric theory
6. He was an Astronomer, mathematician, translater, artist, and physicist.
7. Discovered several scientific theories pf physics and motion.
11. Took up the aristotolian ideas, arguing for an empricial approach, known as the scientific mehtod.
12. A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world
13. A period when Philosophers believed that they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically
14. Literally, sun-centered; the system of the universe proposed in 1543 by Nicolaus Copernicus, who argued that the earth and the plantes revolve around the sun.

1. Created 24 operas.
2. father of rationalism
3. Someone who studies wisdom, love to study
4. One of the most influicial THinkers during the 18 century.
8. A system of thought expounded by rene Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
9. Feople were born with blank minds.
10. He was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.