People
He discovered the laws of gravity
Isaac Newton split white light into colored light.
What is the Light Spectrum?
A mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, transferring the ink
What is the printing press?
A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun, moon, and planets revolve around the earth.
What is geocentric theory?
Englishman who wrote that human beings are naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Galileo's experiment disproved that heavier bodies fell faster than lighter ones.
What is the law of falling bodies?
A process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.
What is the Scientific Method?
An informal meeting place where ideas would be exchanged.
What is a salon?
1. Identify the problem
2. Form a hypothesis
3. Perform experiments to test the hypothesis
4. Analyze the results of the experiment
5. Conclusion
What are the steps to the scientific method?
Italian astronomer and mathematician who built his own telescope and found four moons revolving around Jupiter.
Who is Galileo?
Rules about how the universe moves, published by Isaac Newton.
An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
What is the telescope?
Having the sun at the center.
What is heliocentric?
He created calculus.
Who is Issac Newton?
Proposed the heliocentric theory that put the sun in the center of the earth with the planets traveling around the sun.
Who was Nicholas Copernicus?
Imperfections observed by Galileo Galilei proved the view that the heavens were imperfect.
What are sunspots?
It was used to magnify images.
What is a concave lens?
They were called philosophes.
What were philosphers?
Sponsered Brah.
Who was King Frederick II?
Proposed the three ideas of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Galileo observed that these orbited a planet and not the earth.
What are Jupiter's moons?
It's a scientific instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
What is Encyclopedia?
Developed the scientific method.
Who is Francis Bacon and René Descartes?