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- 5. Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic.
- 6. Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations
- 7. rish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.
- 8. one in which the planets revolve around a fixed sun.
- 10. Newton began his investigations by cutting a pinhole in his window shade to let in sunlight, which showed up on his wall as a round illuminated area.
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- 1. British philosopher to construct a philosophic system based on the view of nature that emerged from the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- 2. German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
- 3. Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
- 4. English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author
- 9. It is conceptually a geocentric model, or more precisely geoheliocentric: the Earth is at the centre of the universe, the Sun and Moon and the stars revolve around.
