Across
- 5. Developed precise thermometers filled with mercury to measure temperature
- 6. believed that a better understanding of the natural world will produce practical knowledge that could improve people’s lives
- 8. The first to use a telescope to study the stars
- 9. Regarded as a founder of modern chemistry
- 11. Used Brahe’s data to formulate laws to describe planetary motion.
Down
- 1. Developed the heliocentric system
- 2. Wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy or Principia
- 3. Proved that lightning and electricity are identical
- 4. Considered the father of modern anatomy
- 7. disproved many of Galen’s hypotheses
- 9. Made the most accurate and extensive observations of the planets and stars at the time
- 10. believed that scientists needed to reject old assumptions