People
a mathematician who believed that rationality, or logic, could be used to discover new knowledge.
Rene Decartes
________is a practice of reasoning by experiment and evidence rather than by drawing theories from abstract ideas or traditions.
Empiricism
was a German inventor who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press using mechanical movable type printing which started the Printing Revolution.
Johannes Gutenberg
This greatly lowered the cost of books.
The printing press
What were the sea voyages to other continents made by Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain Cook and others in the 15th to 18th centuries.
Voyages of discovery
Who observed the movement of the stars and planets for 25 years and he came to the conclusion that it was actually heliocentric.
Nicolaus Copernicus
(a belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious, especially Christian, doctrine).
Heresy
advocated for empiricism, or the experimental approach to learning.
Francis Bacon
is the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.
Secularism
This collection of ideas and discoveries that would forever change the way we think about the world would be called the
Scientific revolution
Who heard of this new invention of the telescope and made his own.
Galileo Galilei
view believes the Earth is the center of the universe orbited by the other planets.
Geocentric
was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and an important figure in the Reformation.
Martin Luther
Who was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and an important figure in the protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther
______was a movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church authority.
The Protestant Reformation
whos theory showed that all physical objects were acted upon by the same force, the universal law of gravitation.
Isaac Newton
is the belief attributing prime importance to humans rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Humanism
Genoese sea captain to sail from Spain in 1492 across the Atlantic, hoping to find a new trade route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
This theory argued the sun that was the center of the universe, not Earth.
Heliocentric
________was a time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
The Renaissance
Who studied human anatomy?
Andreas Vesalius
is a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
Individualism
The geocentric structure was first devised by this Greek philosopher
Aristotle
A hypothesis, experiment and conclusions is known as the
Scientific method
The Church and Bible were no longer being viewed as the primary source of knowledge.
Displacing of the church