study guide

3. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
4. Mozart was a successful composer, violinist and assistant concertmaster.
6. Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century.
7. systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
9. was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.
11. a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
12. was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
14. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.

1. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
2. was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe
5. representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical systems.
8. a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.
10. A period when philosphers used reason and the scientific method to discover more about human nature
13. A seventeenth-century English philosopher.