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- 3. Harvey English doctor who made advances in anatomy when he discovered that the human heart ( not the arteries, as previously thought) pumps blood in a circuit throughout the body. He published a book with his findings in 1628.
- 6. The earth-centered view in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe.
- 7. A force in which every object in the universe is attracted to every other object - how objects fall and stay down!
- 9. A German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
- 11. Galilei Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist; perfected the refracting telescope, which led to his discovery of Jupiter's satellites, sunspots, and craters on the Earth's moon.
- 13. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for the law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
- 15. The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- 16. Believed Earth was the center of the universe.
- 17. An invention created by Galileo Galilei that measures tempurature.
- 19. A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses.
- 20. A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
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- 1. Galileo published his findings in this publication in 1610.
- 2. Oval shape; in this case, planetary orbits being oval shape
- 4. An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
- 5. English statesman and writer; believed that by better understanding the world, scientists would generate practical knowledge that would improve people's lives.
- 8. French philosopher and mathematician; relied on mathematics and logic rather than experimental methods. Also wrote about doubt and uncertainty, and about casting aside everything he had ever learned and starting from scratch. The only thing he believed he could truly know to be true was that he himself existed - "I think therefore I am".
- 10. An Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.
- 12. The theory of the ultimate nature of reality
- 14. Astronomer who calculated that planetary orbits are elliptical rather than circular shape.
- 18. Copernicus Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, contradicting the Ptolemaic system that had dominated medieval cosmology.