Scientific Revolution

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Across
  1. 5. this practice in scientific methodology began to be used by Western "scientists"/ seeing is believing
  2. 6. (full name)this man was THE MAN of the Scientific Revolution...gravity, calculus, universe bound by natural laws
  3. 8. this astronomer mathematically "theorized" that the sun was the center of our universe...but could not prove it
  4. 9. this newer...and more accurate theory...said the sun was the center of our "universe" and we revolved around it
  5. 10. this Renaissance era invention allowed others to read and build upon new scientific data...leading to further discoveries
  6. 12. the "new" belief that God was an impersonal creator...created with natural laws and then let it go...does not interact with man
  7. 13. "Father of Rationalism"...believed all creation could be explained rationally...focused on REASON in application to scientific study
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  1. 1. this man is credited with helping to develop a well thought out, scientific method in approach to research
  2. 2. (first name) this astronomer PROVED the Heliocentric Theory with a telescope...got him in trouble with the Catholic Church
  3. 3. (full name)worked on mapping out the human circulatory system
  4. 4. (last name) this man worked out laws of planetary motion...planets move in an elliptical orbit around the sun
  5. 7. this invention had massive impact on Astronomical research
  6. 11. this old theory stated that the world was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it