The Scientific Revolution

2. English writer and scientist who participated in debates about the ideas of the Scientific Revolution.
4. French surgeon who improved medical practices and developed better treatments for wounds.
7. This English thinker promoted using observation and experimentation to gain knowledge.
9. Galilei This Italian scientist used a telescope to make important observations that supported the heliocentric model.
11. This Danish astronomer made extremely accurate observations of the planets that helped Kepler develop his ideas.
15. Ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas about the natural world influenced European thought for centuries.
16. This astronomer proposed that the Sun, not Earth, was at the center of the universe.
18. This English physician discovered that the heart pumps blood throughout the body.
19. A branch of mathematics developed by Newton and Leibniz that helps explain change and motion.
20. A model of the universe that places Earth at the center.
21. Kepler This scientist used Brahe's observations to show that planets move in elliptical orbits.

1. The scientific study of stars, planets, and other objects in space.
3. This French thinker emphasized using reason and mathematics to understand the natural world.
5. This scientist studied human anatomy through dissections and corrected errors in earlier anatomical knowledge.
6. Ancient Greek astronomer who developed a geocentric model of the universe.
8. This scientist studied gases and helped establish chemistry as a modern science.
10. A testable explanation or educated guess about a question.
12. A model of the universe that places the Sun at the center.
13. The force that attracts objects toward one another, including objects toward Earth.
14. Method A systematic process scientists use to investigate questions and test ideas.
17. This scientist developed laws of motion and universal gravitation.