Science
Luther & Co
Stars & Things
Asia
Who wrote it?
100

This instrument to tell time used to use water.

The clock

100

Luther’s argument against the Catholic Church was communicated through this work

95 Theses

100

This art uses the stars to predict the future.

Astrology

100

Francis Xavier, missionary to Asia, was a member of what religious order?

Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

100

“On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres”

Nicolaus Copernicus

200

This British philosopher championed inductive reasoning

Francis Bacon

200

Luther’s wife was formerly a…

nun

200

This was the center of Ptolemy’s universe.

The Earth

200

In China this plant was used as a gun barrel.

Bamboo

200

"Summa Theologica”

Thomas Aquinas

300

Voltaire famously said Emilie du Châtelet’s only fault was being a...

Woman

300

Luther’s hometown

Wittenberg

300

He used a telescope to discover Jupiter’s moons.

Galileo Galilei

300

This was the ruling shogunate in Japan in the seventeenth century

Tokugawa
300

“The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven”

Matteo Ricci

400

He built the first printing press in Europe.

Gutenberg

400

This Protestant reformer was based in Geneva.

John Calvin

400

This invention offered an alternative to using the stars for navigation.

The Compass

400

Gun powder was used militarily in China since this century.

Tenth century

400

“Clocks: A Revolution in Time”

David Landes

500

Fluxions are better known today as…

Calculus

500

Catholics responded to the Reformation by holding this.

The Council of Trent

500

He provided empirical evidence for the heliocentric theory in the sixteenth century.

Tycho Brahe

500

This Japanese leader banned Christianity in 1597.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

500

"Nuns, Wives, and Mothers”

Merry Wiesner

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