People
Discoveries and Writing
Places of Origin
Theories and Laws
Misc
100
Known for explaining the laws of gravity and motion
Isaac Newton
100
Kepler discovered that the planets move around the sun in _______ orbits
Elliptical
100
The birthplace of Galileo
Italy
100
States that the earth was the center of the universe.
Geocentric theory
100
Universities would often take ____ from executions
the bodies of criminals
200
Made major discoveries about the human body and the circulatory system.
William Harvey
200
Harvey discovered that the heart acts like a ______ in the body, allowing blood to circulate.
Pump
200
The birthplace of Isaac Newton
England
200
States that the earth revolves around the sun
Heliocentric theory
200
The four bodily humors
blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile
300
Advocated for a system that later became the scientific method in the 1200's
Roger Bacon
300
Galileo discovered that the sun had _______.
Spots
300
The birthplace of Tycho Brahe
Denmark
300
An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force.
Newton's First law of motion
300
Descartes is quoted as saying this
I think, therefore I am
400
He was one of the first people to abandon the geocentric theory in favor of the heliocentric theory.
Copernicus
400
Galileo used his telescope to see that Venus has _______, much like the moon.
Phases
400
The birthplace of Copernicus
Poland
400
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
Newton's third law of motion
400
Whose middle finger is this
Galileo
500
Inventor of the telescope
Galileo Galilei
500
This text, written by Newton, was the basis of calculus
Principia
500
Kepler was from ____
Germany
500
1) every planet’s orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at a focus; 2) a line joining the Sun and a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times; and 3) the square of a planet’s orbital period is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion
500
Galileo was able to view four of Jupiter's __ moons through his telescope
79