Vocabulary
Key Inventions
Key Figures
Key Events
Vocabulary
100
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass
100
An instrument that makes faraway objects seem closer
What is a telescope
100
Main teacher of Geocentrism
Who is Aristotle
100
Wrote a book on heliocentrism in 1543
Who is Copernicus
100
An instrument that makes smaller objects appear larger
What is a microscope
200
An object that is launched, such as a cannonball
What is projectile
200
Made more accurate by German scientist Daniel Gabriel Farenheit
What is a thermometer
200
Made several crucial discoveries about our solar system with his telescope
Who is Galileo
200
A time when many began to question the Christian worldview.
What is the Renaissance
200
An idea or assumption to be tested in an experiment
What is a hypothesis
300
Having the sun at the center of the solar system.
What is heliocentric
300
A concept developed by two philosphers' ideas: Francis Bacon and Rene Descarles
What is the scientific method
300
Proposed heliocentrism
Who is Copernicus
300
The fruit that helped Newton think of gravity
What is an apple
300
The path that one heavenly body follows another
What is an orbit
400
An instrument that measures changes in pressure of the atmosphere
What is a barometer
400
Originally an upside-down tube filled with mercury to measure pressure
What is a barometer
400
Introduced the concept of gravity
Who is Isaac Newton
400
The court that Galileo was forced to face after writing "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems"
What is the Inquisition
400
A French philosopher who helped in the development of the scientific method
Who is Rene Descartes
500
Rationalism
What is the belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge
500
Invented by Dutch lens makers in the 1500s
What is a microscope
500
Figured out that orbits of planets are ellipses
Who is Johannes Kepler
500
The substance used by scientists in barometers and thermometers
What is mercury
500
A physicist who invented the barometer
Who was Evangelista Torricelli
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