Roots of the Scientific Revolution
VOCABULARY
SCIENTISTS
GALILEO
100
Renaissance thinkers rediscovered the teachings and cultures of ancient Rome and _____________.
Greece
100
The amount of matter in an object.
mass
100
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek was the first to use a microscope to see ____
bateria
100
Name one of the features he saw with his telescope.
Moon surface. Phases of Venus. Rings of Saturn. Moons of Jupiter.
200
In the 2nd century CE, Ptolemy said there were only __________ continents.
Three
200
An idea or assumption to be tested in an experiment.
hypothesis
200
Was the first to propose the heliocentric theory.
Copernicus
200
Person who ordered Galileo to Rome to face the Inquisition.
The Pope
300
The two major sources that guided European thinking was the Bible and _____________.
Aristotle
300
An object that is fired or launched.
projectile
300
Wrote the book “Principia”
Issac Newton
300
Galileo used observation and ___________ to solve scientific problems.
math
400
Uses both logic and observation to help people how the natural world works.
The Scientific Method
400
Facts or information.
data
400
Discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses and not circles.
Johannes Kepler
400
Galileo was officially charged with _______
heresy
500
The thinker that combined Aristotle's thinking with Christian faith.
Thomas Aquinas
500
Belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge.
rationalism
500
The German who created the first accurate thermometer.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
500
Name of the book Galileo wrote.
Dialoge on the Two Chief World Systems
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