Across
- 2. an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
- 8. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment
- 10. in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
- 11. the century the scientific revolution began
- 12. a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences.
Down
- 1. the application of conceptual knowledge for achieving practical goals, especially in a reproducible way
- 3. the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.
- 4. questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma.
- 5. a continent comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
- 6. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain
- 7. the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543.
- 9. an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
