Geography
Home of the Seine River and Rene' Descartes.
What is France?
Leeuwenhoek improves this, allowing one to see cells in the body.
What is a microscope?
Using the telescope, Galileo confirmed this planet orbits around the sun instead of staying still.
What is the Earth?
Egyptian born inventor of the astrolabe.
Who is Ptolemy?
Sir Isaac Newton taught at Cambridge University in this Northern European Country.
What is England?
According to Galileo this is what lands first in a vacuum between a brick and a feather.
What are both of them?
Elongated orbit of planets around the sun, caused by gravity.
What are elliptical orbits?
English inventor of Calculus.
Who is Sir Issac Newton?
The most famous river in England, one of the largest as well.
What is the River Thames?
Clock accuracy is improved with this physics principle.
What is a pendulum?
Belief that reason is the main source of knowledge.
What is rationalism?
Author of the Discourse of Methods.
Who is Rene' Descartes.
The order of these countries from East to West: Poland, Denmark, Germany
What is Germany, Denmark and Poland?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is modify?
Famous philosophical phrase uttered by Descartes.
I think, therefore I am.
These peoples grant Arabic scholars the concept of zero.
Who are the Indians.
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, in this country.
What is Italy?
The source that holds the solar system together according to the Principia.
What is gravity?
The three Newtonian laws of motion.
What are:
An object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon, force equals mass times acceleration and for every action there is an equal/opposite reaction?
Who is Copernicus?