Key People
Who pointed a new telescope at the sky and wrote about what he saw?
Galileo
What word means Sun-centered?
Heliocentric
What tool lets you see faraway things like the Moon and planets?
Telescope
In the old Earth-centered idea, what moves around the Earth?
The Sun, Moon, and planets
What do you call the steps scientists use to test ideas?
The scientific method
Who wrote a book saying the Sun, not the Earth, is the center?
Copernicus
What word means Earth-centered?
Geocentric
What tool lets you see tiny things up close?
Microscope
Which group punished Galileo for his ideas?
The Church
Francis Bacon told people to stop reading only old books. What should they do instead?
Watch nature and do experiments
Who is the English scientist known for gravity and the laws of motion?
Isaac Newton
What word means facts you can see, measure, or test?
Evidence
What machine made books faster and cheaper to make?
The printing press
Whose ideas about nature did people trust for a very long time? He was an ancient Greek.
Aristotle
Why do scientists repeat each other's experiments?
To make sure the results are real
Who wrote a famous book about the human body with detailed drawings?
Vesalius
What word means a big change in how people think?
Revolution
Because of the printing press, scientists could do what with their discoveries?
Share them quickly with many people
Before science, how did most people treat old books and Church teachings?
They trusted them without testing
After the Scientific Revolution, people trusted tradition less. What two things did they trust more?
Reason and evidence
Which English doctor showed that the heart pumps blood in a circle?
William Harvey
What word is the idea that we learn from what we see and test?
Empiricism
Galileo saw small lights moving around Jupiter. What were they?
Moons of Jupiter
The Church said the Earth stays still. What did Galileo say?
The Earth moves around the Sun
Science and government debates both ask: why should we obey? What did people start to ask for?
Good reasons and evidence