Across
- 4. an emphasis on abstract reasoning, quantitative thought, an understanding of how nature works, the view of nature as a machine, and the development of an experimental scientific method.
- 9. model that states the Sun is at the center of the solar system or universe, and the Earth and other planets revolve around it.
- 10. the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Down
- 1. a type of government where a monarch shares power with a constitution and a legislature.
- 2. an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens in 1609
- 3. a political and moral philosophy that explains the relationship between citizens and governments through a hypothetical contract.
- 5. a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory, which states that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun, rather than the Earth being at the center of the universe
- 6. the idea that the Earth is at the center of the universe and that the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets orbit around it.
- 7. this scientist believed that God was the creator of this orderly universe, the clockmaker who had set everything in motion.
- 8. this scientist proved Copernicus’s theory mathematically