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Polish cleric and astronomer
Suggested that everything revolved around the Sun rather than around the earth.
Who is Copernicus?
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To move in a curved path around a star (sun) or planet (moon)
What is orbit
100
A round 3-dimensional object, like a ball
What is a sphere
100
When he published his writing just before his death, he said "Some people immediately reject my heliocentric views as being unbibical"
Who was Copernicus?
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When did the Scientific Revolution begin? Was it the 1600s, 1700s, or 1800s?
Scientific Revolution began in the 1600s with the development of scientific instruments like the telescope and pendulum.
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He used a telescope to support the ideas of Copernicus
Who is Galileo?
200
Question or Problem
Research
Hypothesis
Conduct an experiment
Analyze your data
What is the Scientific Method?
200
The force that pulls everything towards the center of the earth
What is gravity
200
He said, "As I observed the force that caused an apple to fall I determined to study gravity and its laws."
Who was Newton?
200
What was the punishment Galileo was given for his belief in a heliocentric solar system?
He was put under house arrest
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He believed that the planets moved by the laws of mathematics and that the planet's orbit is elliptical and not a circle
Who was Johannes Kepler?
300
A guess or prediction that you can test to see if it's true
What was hypothesis
300
A instrument that makes faraway objects looks closer, like stars and planets
What is a telescope
300
As the sentence of his punishment for heresy was being read, he muttered "and yet it moves" about the earth
Who was Galileo?
300
According to the Catholic Church, what was the crime committed by both Copernicus and Galileo?
They were guilty of heresy
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He believed that every object in the universe has gravitational attraction. He explained motion by writting about the 3 laws of motion.
Who was Newton?
400
This states that the earth is the center of the solar system, and that the sun and planets revolve around it.
What is geocentric?
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A belief or opinion that is contrary to the doctrine of the church
What is heresy
400
Late in life, he said "evil of stupidity is inexcusable" about his critics.
Who was Edison?
400
Who were the first to teach that the earth was the center of the solar system - the Greeks, Romans or Chinese?
Who are the Greeks
500
An inventor who gave us the record player, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
500
What is geocentric?
500
A weight hanging from a cord or chain that swings back and forth
What is a pendulum
500
He said, "As the Holy Father of all of Christianity I pronounce Galileo's writings to be heresy"
Who was the pope? (Pope Urban VIII)
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Which was not a field of science that was developed during the Scientific Revolution of the 1600s and 1700s? Astronomy, nuclear physics, biology, anatomy
What is nuclear physics