Across
- 2. : this place/country became the center for the translation of Arabic texts into Latin in the 11th century
- 3. : this person is Tycho's assistant; he's a German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion
- 7. : the true facts about sth, rather than the things that have been invented or guessed; people can have different interpretations of it
- 8. : an instrument used by Galileo to observe the sky; built by Galileo in 1609;
- 10. : this theory states that Earth is at the center
- 11. : a star that suddenly becomes much brighter because it is exploding; it challenges the medieval conception of universe
- 12. : this person demonstrated the mathematical proofs for his universal law of gravitation in his work, the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
- 13. : Latin word for 'knowledge'
- 14. : a theory proposed by Copernicus, stating that the Sun is at the center of the cosmos
- 16. : this person was a Greek astronomer who wrote the book Almagest (the Arabic name of the Syntaxis)
- 17. : changing ordinary metals into gold and trying to find a medicine that would cure any disease
Down
- 1. : a type of reasoning emphasized by Rene Descartes; generalization + specific → conclusion
- 4. : this motion is about that planets appear to move backward at times and this was explained with 'epicycles'
- 5. : belief in things that are not real or possible, for example, magic or witchcraft
- 6. : the pope or his officials; ___________ admitted that Galileo was right, more than 350 years after the Roman Catholic Church condemned Galileo
- 8. : The Catholic Church convened the Council of _________ in 1545 to stop the spread of Protestantism and to revive the Catholic Church
- 9. : a __________ is someone whose beliefs go against the Church's official beliefs
- 15. : mechanical model of the solar system according to the heliocentric theory