Across
- 4. the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.
- 6. having or representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical systems.
- 8. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
- 10. a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
Down
- 1. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- 2. a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation.
- 3. to make a voyage completely around the world
- 5. an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant
- 7. a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
- 9. a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.