Across
- 4. a use of the stars for ancient people to get from here to there
- 8. heavens aren't perfect
- 9. new birth
- 10. Type of pull Kepler thought the sun had
- 11. What Kepler was studying
- 14. you need a dark sky, dark place, clear night, clear view
- 16. a year-round celestial object
- 18. phase of the moon when we can see only the dark side
- 19. Gaining knowledge from sensory information
- 21. Fruit ninja!
- 26. 1632
- 29. Geocentric model that used Aristotle's philosophy
- 31. an early empiricist (but not the earliest)
- 33. 1642
- 34. 1642
- 36. 1571
- 37. a phase of transition between natural philosophy and science
- 38. position when the planet is farthest from the sun
- 39. Killed poor Galileo's eyes
- 44. 1665
- 45. 1616
- 46. an old name for the study of the natural world
- 47. position when the planet is closest to the sun
- 48. when the right half of the moon is bright
- 49. 1564
Down
- 1. there are 88 of them
- 2. starting point for stargazing this fall
- 3. 1610
- 5. a recognizable arrange of stars in the night sky
- 6. 1666
- 7. what Newton studied with prism
- 12. "savior"
- 13. Hey man I'm not an idiot!
- 15. not everything orbits the earth
- 16. Isaac Newton was born
- 17. 1630
- 20. curious questioner
- 22. "the idiot"
- 23. where Newton studied and worked
- 24. 1727
- 25. sad boy who didn't like people. sad sad sad. :(
- 27. a way to get more empirical facts
- 28. 1668
- 30. the amount of the moon that is always lit up
- 32. 1609
- 35. 1633
- 39. if an ellipse has very high eccentricity is it ____.
- 40. 1596
- 41. result of trial for Galileo
- 42. the shape of orbits, according to Kepler's 1st law
- 43. the law of the stars
