The Solar System
Copernicus
Galileo
Descartes
Newton
100
Prior to the scientific revolution, ideas about the universe and solar system came from here
What is the Catholic Church?
100
The home country of Copernicus
What is Poland?
100
The home country of Galileo
What is Italy?
100
The home country of Descartes
What is France?
100
Isaac Newton's home country
What is England?
200
Prior to the scientific revolution, this was the center of the universe
What is Earth?
200
The shape of of the earth for Copernicus
What is round?
200
The religion to which Galileo belonged
What is Catholicism?
200
Along with Bacon, Descartes is credited with having created this
What is the scientific method?
200
The grade average of Newton during college
What is below average
300
Earth was believed to be this shape prior to the scientific revolution
What is flat?
300
The position of the sun in the solar system for Copernicus
What is at the center?
300
The device Galileo created to prove this theories
What is the telescope?
300
Descartes questioned the existence of everything, except
What is his own existence?
300
The reason that Newton returned home during his college years
What is another outbreak of the plague
400
The shape that planets take as they revolve in the solar system
What is an ellipses?
400
According to Copernicus, the earth tilted along its
What is axis?
400
The court which tried Galileo for his ideas
What is the Inquisition?
400
The quote most attributed to Descartes is
What is "I think therefore I am"
400
The two subjects for which Newton is credited with
What are gravity and the laws of motion?
500
The term that describes the sun at the center of the universe
What is heliocentric?
500
The book published by Copernicus
What is De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
500
The book published by Galileo
What is Two Chief Systems of the World?
500
The book where Descartes published his ideas
What is Discourse on Method?
500
The book which Newton published
What is Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy or Principia?
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