Key Figures
This person was the first to study the sky with a telescope, discovering lunar craters
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This device helped us to see really small things such as germs.
What is the Microscope?
This means to go around something.
What is Circumnavigate?
Brilliant individuals laid the foundations for the Scientific Revolution at this time.
What is 1540 to 1700?
This man proved that planets move in an elliptical (oval) orbit rather than a circular one.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This device is used to tell what the temperature is.
What is the thermometer?
This fleet of ships once ruled the oceans under the Spanish.
What is the Spanish Armada?
Before the Scientific Revolution people learned about the world from these two groups.
What is the Ancient Greeks and the Catholic Church?
This person suggested the heliocentric theory. (Planets orbit the sun)
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This device is used to measure air pressure.
What is the barometer?
This series of events led to the birth of modern science.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The word science is Latin for this.
What is knowledge?
This man formulated the law of gravity and the three laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This device allowed us to look up and examine distant objects.
What is the telescope?
These were explanations scientists developed based on facts.
What are theories?
These people were artists and writers who spent much of their time studying the natural world.
What is Humanists?
Greek rationalist who used observation with logic and put the Earth at the center of the solar system.
Who is Ptolemy?
Columbus surprised everyone when he discovered this because it was not on ancient maps.
What is a new continent (the Americas)
This trade route went from Europe to Africa and the Americas.
What is triangular trade?
This is a step by step procedure for performing experiments and other scientific research.
What is the scientific method?