This is the name given for the period in history in which scientific thinking became more widespread. It produced a flurry of new and groundbreaking scientists.
What is the Scientific Revolution
100
This brilliant German astronomer and mathematician used actual data to prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Who is Kepler?
100
This is the view that the Earth moves around the Sun.
What is the heliocentric model?
100
This is the English scientist who came up with a single force that works everywhere in the universe. His "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" outline Three Laws of Motion.
Who is Newton?
100
He published the first accurate and detailed study of the human body.
Who is Vesalius?
200
This old writer had said that the Earth is the center of the universe. It would take centuries for his ideas to be challenged.
Who is Ptolemy?
200
The data showed that the Earth goes around the sun, but not in a perfect circle. Instead it moves in this oval-shaped orbit.
What is an ellipse?
200
This is the process used by science to find answers to important questions involving data that can be gathered and experiments that can prove the question.
What is the Scientific Method?
200
Everything is held together by this force that works throughout the universe.
What is gravity?
200
He developed a new and effective ointment for infections.
Who is Pare?
300
This is the view/model that the Earth is the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric model?
300
He built a telescope that showed that Jupiter has four moons moving around it. He also showed that the surface of the moon is anything but smooth and perfect. He ended up being charged with heresy by the Church.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
This is an explanation, sometimes called an educated guess, that leads to further observation and experiments.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This chemist came up with the idea that compounds are composed of elements.
Who is Boyle?
300
He said that the heart acts as a pump. He described the circulation system.
Who is Harvey?
400
He argued that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Who is Copernicus?
400
This device was used to look at distant objects. It was used to show that Jupiter has moons and that the sun was not smooth or perfect.
What is a telescope?
400
This is the scientist who emphasized the use of experimentation and observation. He also looked for practical uses of science, such as technology.
Who is Bacon?
400
This ancient Greek thinker wrote a book on anatomy, but it was anatomically incorrect. Nobody challenged him until modern times.
Who is Galen?
400
He invented the microscope.
Who is van Leeuwenhoek?
500
He set up an astronomical observatory to gather data to test and prove the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun. His data was later used to prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
500
Galileo was brought before this Church court to either recant (deny) his belief that the earth moves around the sun - or be punished, maybe even killed.
What is the Inquisition?
500
This is the scientist who emphasized human reasoning. In his Discourse on Method, he came up with a method known as systematic doubt. He is the one who coined the phrase, "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Descartes?
500
He said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."