Scientific Revolution
Famous People
Inventions/Discoveries
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
The scientific method was created by this thinker.
Who is Bacon?
100
An Egyptian born astronomer who stated that the sun and the planets moved around the earth in a circular path.
Who is Ptolemy?
100
Galileo improved this object a lot and used it to prove Copernicus's theory.
What is telescope?
100
An explanation of how or why something happens?
What is a theory?
100
A political change that makes things better.
What is reform?
200
Isaac Newtons discovery.
What is gravity?
200
He supported Copernicus's theory but also made corrections that planets move in ellipses.
Who is Kepler?
200
The force of gravity holds the whole solar system together.
What is the universal law of gravity?
200
To make observations and figure out the facts.
What is investigate?
200
An agreement between the rulers and people.
What is the social contract?
300
Boyles discovery.
What is air made of gasses?
300
Who proved Copernicus's theory?
Who is Galileo?
300
What did Robert Hooke discover?
What is cells?
300
An idea or how you come to a conclusion of something.
What is approach?
300
Ideas based off of Roman and Greek ideas?
What is scientific knowledge?
400
What is the geocentric theory?
What is the church belief that the earth was the center of the universe?
400
Who said, "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Descartes?
400
Who discovered how materials burn?
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
400
A belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.
What is rationalism?
400
Political thinkers tried to apply reason and scientific ideas to government and society.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
What are the steps of the scientific method?
What is observe facts, make a hypothesis, predict a result, test the prediction with experiment and observation, and modify the hypothesis?
500
Who wrote, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
500
He discovered that the heart pumps blood.
Who is William Harvey?
500
An equal division of power among the branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
500
A religious approach towards God creating the universe according to mathematical laws?
What is deism?
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