scientific revolution

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  1. 3. Mathematician who concluded that certain mathematical laws govern planetary motion. One of these laws showed that the planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circle. Kepler’s laws showed that Copernicus’s basic ideas were true
  2. 5. the idea that people should use reason, or logical thought to understand the world
  3. 6. Italian scientist, Galileo built on the new theories about astronomy. Using a telescope, he supported Copernicus’s heliocentric theory, and came under persecution from the Catholic Church.
  4. 7. Italian astronomer and mathematician who first used the telescope to study stars
  5. 8. a belief that earth rotates daily on an axis and planets revolve in orbits around the sun
  6. 10. Developed the heliocentric theory that the stars, Earth, and other planets revolved around the sun.
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  1. 1. a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer
  2. 2. having the sun as the center of the universe
  3. 4. the combining of elements to form a pleasing whole
  4. 6. the theory that earth is at the center of the universe
  5. 9. a physicist and mathematician, key figure in the Scientific Revolution