Across
- 2. an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, and sometimes described as a polymath
- 4. an area of knowledge, which includes the study of such topics as numbers and formulas
- 8. an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author widely recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of all time
- 9. a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye
- 11. a force exerted by magnets when they attract or repel each other
Down
- 1. a period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
- 3. science that studies celestial objects and space
- 5. representing the sun in the center of the solar system
- 6. a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the center
- 7. an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer and larger
- 10. a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books