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- 5. an English Renaissance statesman and philosopher, best known for his promotion of the scientific method
- 8. a 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
- 9. A logical, systematic approach to the solution of a scientific problem
- 11. the combining of elements to form a pleasing whole
- 13. Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.
- 14. an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor that's regarded as the first modern chemist and a pioneer of the scientific method
- 16. 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
- 18. French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher know for being one of the first to abandon scholastic Aristotelianism, because he formulated the first modern version of mind-body dualism, from which stems the mind-body problem
- 19. English physicist and mathematician , most famous for his law of gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century
- 20. astronomical theory which describes a system which puts the Earth in the center of the universe, and describes other objects from the point of view of the Earth
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- 1. Danish astronomer whose work in developing astronomical instruments and in measuring and fixing the positions of stars paved the way for future discoveries
- 2. German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion
- 3. a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. It is one of several views of epistemology
- 4. A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- 6. English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea
- 7. the idea that people should use reason, or logical thought to understand the world
- 10. a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more putative instances of knowledge which are asserted to be mere belief
- 12. a geocentric cosmology; that is, it starts by assuming that the Earth is stationary and at the centre of the universe
- 15. an theory in which the sun is in the middle of the universe
- 17. the universal force of attraction acting between all matter
