Across
- 2. reconciled the Heliocentric model with the church and developed the Law's of Planetary Motion
- 3. Way, our galaxy!
- 4. Interpretation, “Days” in the Hebrew text can be interpreted as longer periods of time, ‘epochs’, extends the creation process from literal days to longer times, aligning with modern evidence for age of the planet
- 7. the path which a planet within the solar system follows around the center, similar to what we call orbits
- 9. A model of the solar system with Earth at the center
- 11. one of the first astronomers to develop a truly heliocentric model of the solar system
- 13. created a geocentric model of the solar system that explained this apparent motion of the planets
- 14. Discourse concerning the stars, mystical, superstitious
- 17. of Age Interpretation, Recent creation in the last 10,000 years, Earth and universe created to ‘appear’ millions/billions of years old, aligns age of Earth with scientific evidence for Earth’s age
- 19. Book published by Ptolemy presenting his model of the solar system
- 20. solstice, day when the sun is most directly over head and the first day of summer
- 21. The scientific study of the planets and stars of the universe, their movements, patterns, composition, and evolution
Down
- 1. the model developed by Copernicus based on his 7 axioms, sun in the center
- 5. Earth Interpretation, Creation took place over six 24 hour days, age of Earth is 6,000-10,000 years based on OT genealogy,
- 6. Interpretation, Translates ‘days’ as not actual amounts of time, but references for communicating better with the audience of the time, views Genesis more as a narrative, rather than a text to be taken literally, topical, not chronological
- 8. a secondary path of movement that planets follow in addition to their deferent
- 10. measured the circumference of Earth using a stick and a shadow
- 12. Clusters, spherical groups of older stars that are found in the halo
- 15. Eclipse, evidence for earth being a sphere where Earth casts a curved shadow on the moon
- 16. stars, stars in the sky that did not move in perfect circles, known today as planets
- 18. a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true