Don't Stop Me Now
This revolution changed the way people thought about nature.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Galileo Galilei used this invention to make new discoveries.
What is the telescope?
The Catholic Church taught that this planet was at the centre of the universe.
What is Earth?
This invention of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's gave us the ability to see bacteria.
What is a microscope?
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is 'ask a question?'
Scholars in the Middle Ages used these two sources for their ideas about the world.
What are the Bible and Aristotle?
Galileo discovered that this planet moves through phases.
What is Venus?
"Cogito, ergo sum," is the famous foundational belief of this mathematician and philosopher.
Who is Rene Descartes?
Newton used this term to refer to the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
This is the last step of the scientific method.
What is 'analyze data?'
Events during this period of history motivated the Scientific Revolution by showing that accepted beliefs could be wrong.
What is the Age of Exploration?
This model of the solar system shows the sun as the unmoving centre, with the planets orbiting around it.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This is the term for Descartes's philosophy of doubting statements until they are proven true by logic.
What is skepticism/Cartesian skepticism?
This scientist's work was perceived to challenge the Catholic Church's authority.
Who is Galileo?
This is what a barometer measures.
What is pressure in the atmosphere?
This is the idea, put forward by Greek thinkers and resurrected during the Renaissance, that logic can reveal basic truths.
What is rationalism?
Galileo looked at the uneven surface of this satellite through a telescope.
What is the moon?
Descartes believed these were fallible and not to be trusted for knowledge.
What are the senses?
The three laws of this are what Newton describes in his book, Principia.
What is motion?
These two inventions deal with measuring the weather.
What are the barometer and the thermometer?
This model of the solar system claims that Earth is the unmoving centre of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
Who is Kepler?
This is the only thing Descartes is sure he can believe exists in his foundational belief.
What is the self?
Francis Bacon developed this to allow scientists to test each other's theories and produce better results.
What is the scientific method?
Newton's laws of gravity explain why the earlier work of these three scientists is true.
Who are Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo?