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He came up with the idea that the sun is in the middle of the universe
What is Nicolaus Copernicus
100
An instrument designed to make distant objects appear closer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors it does just that. Generally used to look out into space.
What is Telescope
100
VOCABULARY WORD: Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
What is Data
100
In the history of science, there was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry... really came along.
What is The Scientific Revolution
100
Made the famous quote "I think, therefore I am" Developed analytical geometry.
What is Rene' Descartes.
200
He improved the telescope, described the path of projectiles, an object that is fired or launched, found out that the moon’s surface is rough and uneven, he discovered 4 moons around Jupiter, and he also studied Venus and found out that like the moon Venus also had different phases which made him realized that since Venus had phases like the moon then it must be traveling around the sun.
What is Galileo Galilei
200
An instrument used for looking at very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times.
What is Microscope
200
He pioneered the use of the Scientific Method in chemistry and had a law named after him. The volume, pressure, and temperature of gas effect each other.
What is Robert Boyle.
200
A method of procedure that has described natural science since the 17th century. The steps for this method are, ask a Question, research, make a hypothesis, experiment, and make a conclusion.
What is The Scientific Method
200
A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.
What is Scientist
300
He discovered the laws of gravitation. His law of universal gravitation states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. He is also the person that figured all of that out after an apple fell on his head.
What is Isaac Newton
300
Invented by Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel it is like an underwater boat.
What is Submarine
300
English politician and writer who had a passionate interest in science and relied heavily upon experimentation.
What is Francis Bacon.
300
The word for the idea that the earth is in the center of the universe.
What is Geocentric
300
The idea that the sun is in the center of the universe.
What is Heliocentric
400
He improved Copernicus's theory, that the sun is in the center of the universe, and figured out that the orbits of the planets aren't actually circular but ellipse.
What is Johannes Kepler
400
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It was invented by Evangelista Torricelli
What is Barometer
400
Key Figure: This guy is also known as the father of microbiology. He used the microscope to observe bacteria swimming in tooth scrapings .
What is Anton von Leeuwonhoek
400
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. Guessing.
What is Hypothesis
400
Edward Jenner was a British physician that introduced a vaccine to prevent what?
What is smallpox.
500
He performed similar experiments to Joseph Priestly and came up with the name oxygen.
What is Antoine Lavoisier
500
Gabriel Fahrenheit was a physicist who made an instrument to that showed that water froze at 32 degrees.
What is a thermometer.
500
KEY FIGURE: He was the first to demonstrate that the circulation of blood through the human body is continuous, rather than consisting of different types circulating through the veins and arteries.
What is William Harvey
500
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon... ex. The path that the planets take around the sun.
What is Orbits
500
Something, typically a process or device, that has been created or constructed.
What is Inventions
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