Roots of the Scientific Revolution
Copernicus and Kepler: a New View to the Universe
Galileo and the Copernican Theory
Isaac Newton and the Law of Gravity
The Scientific Method and Key Inventions
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Belief in logic and evidence to prove that something is the truth.
What is rationalism?
100
The theory that the Earth is in the center of the solar system.
What is the geocentric theory?
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This is something that is fired by a bow or cannonball.
What is a projectile?
100
The force that keeps all physical objects to the ground.
What is gravity?
100
A tool used to measure weather by the compressed area in the atmosphere.
What is the barometer?
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A major philosopher in 300 B.C who believed in rationalism as the truth.
Who is Aristotle?
200
The theory in which the sun is at the center of the solar system while everything revolved around the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
200
In 1609 when Galileo was teaching in Padua, Italy, he came up with the idea of something that makes objects appear larger than they are. He learned to grind sand to make glass, which was the lens of the machine.
What is the microscope?
200
This is what can strengthen or weaken the force of gravity on us.
What is mass?
200
A tool used to measure the temperature of a liquid, it uses a heavy liquid known as Mercury (not the planet) as the mercury heats up, it rises in the glass tube and as it cools down, it goes down.
What is the thermometer?
300
The word that describes the motion of a large body (such as a planet for example) that revolves around the other (the sun)
What is an orbit?
300
The planet that has 4 moon revolving around it and is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
300
All physical objects had a force of attraction between them depending on their masses and how far they are from gravity.
What is the law of gravity?
300
a tool used to make small objects appear larger, so we can see deeper into it and study an object with more efficiency.
What is the microscope?
400
This religious text helped support the geocentric theory, by saying that God made the universe to have the Earth in the middle while all the planets revolved around the Earth.
What is the Bible?
400
The planet that goes through phases of being very bright to very dim with no light, similar to the moon.
What is Venus?
400
Came up with the idea of the Law of Gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
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A guess relating to the result after the experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
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Some of the people that went against Copernicus and his theory (due to it being the opposite of what it says in the Bible)
Who are the church officials?
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This is when Galileo discovered that Earth wasn't the only rough and uneven shaped planet, but there were other objects in space that were just like Earth.
What is the moon?
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This is what we record in the process of the experiment, we record this to come up to a conclusion that is made up from this evidence that we have collected during the experiment.
What is data?
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