Galileo
What did Galileo invent?
Telescope
What did Kepler Discover
Oval/Elliptical orbit
What did Copernicus develop?
The heliocentric model
What did he develop through his studies?
3 Laws of Motion/Inertia
Who developed the Scientific Method?
Bacon and Descartes
Who’s ideas did he oppose?
Aristotle’s ideas
What was the problem that he ran into while mapping the planets?
He discovered that the planets did not orbit in a circular path.
Whose ideas did Copernicus’s ideas go against?
Ptolemy
What did Newton discover about light?
Light was made up of all colors of the rainbow.
Who created the idea that everything orbited around earth?
Ptolemy
What was Galileo’s biggest contribution to science?
Mechanics (the study of motion)
True/False: People still accept the ideas of Kepler about the oval orbit of planets.
True
Did Copernicus prove his theory?
No
Using the information he discovered through studying light, what item did he develop?
Reflecting telescope
True/False: Galileo invented the thermometer.
True
Fun fact: Galileo was the first scientist to _________.
Routinely use experiments to test theories
Fun Fact: Who did Kepler assist?
Tycho Brahe
Fun Fact: What was the book that Copernicus wrote?
On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
Fun Fact: What was the book that Newton wrote?
Principia Mathematica
When was the barometer developed?
1643