Across
- 1. Italian navigator in Spanish service, the discoverer of the Americas in 1492.
- 3. A period that began in the year 1500s, which European scholars began to question classical scientific ideas and Christian beliefs
- 5. The movement of plants, animals, and other living things between the east and west hemispheres.
- 7. A physicist and mathematician, key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
- 10. The belief tat earth rotates daily on an axis and planets revolve in orbits around the sun
- 12. A German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
- 15. The theory that earth is at the center of the universe
- 17. Portuguese sailing ship, developed for long voyages.
- 18. Portuguese navigator who discorded the sea route from Portuguese around the continent Africa to India.
- 19. Portuguese Navigator that discovered the Cape of good hope.
Down
- 2. An approach to scientific investigation that involves observations, hypothesis, forming, testing, and drawing conclusions that confirms and modifies.
- 4. The theory that has the sun as the center of the universe
- 6. To make a voyage completely around the world.
- 8. A person who gives money in support of a person or a project.
- 9. Gravitation The Theory that gravity acts on all objects throughout the universe.
- 11. Prince of Portugal, sponsored Portuguese voyages of exploration off the western coast.
- 13. An Italian and mathematician who first used the telescope to study the starts.
- 14. Used to measure angles of stars above the horizon to help sailors.
- 16. An English philosopher and scientists who was famous for developing the scientific method.
