Key Figures
The Polish astronomer that proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Copernicus?
Galileo used this instrument to discover astronomical details.
What is the telescope?
What is the heliocentric model?
This English society founded in 1660 became a leading organization for scientific research.
What is the Royal Society?
The term for the theory that the Earth is the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
The Italian scientist who invented the telescope and made significant astronomical discoveries.
Who is Galileo?
This Dutch scientist invented the first compound microscope greatly advancing the study of microbiology.
Who is Zacharias Janssen?
Newton's law that describes the relationship between the motion of an object and forces acting on it are known as these.
What are the laws of motion?
This book by Isaac Newton is one of the most important works in the history of science.
What is "Principia Mathematica"?
This economic and political theory emphasized during the sci rev advocates for free markets and limited government intervention.
What is capitalism?
This English Mathematician and physicist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation work.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This English scientist in known for his discovery of the circulation of blood through the human body.
Who is William Harvey?
This method developed during the Scientific Revolution emphasizes observation, experimentation, and the formulation of laws.
What is the scientific method?
This academy by Louis XlV was Frances leading scientific institution.
What is the French Academy of Sciences?
The term for the 17th-century intellectual movement that emphasized reason, individualism, and skepticism of traditional authority.
What is the Enlightenment?
This Danish astronomer built an extensive data of astronomical data which later helped Kepler develop his laws.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
This Dutch scientist improved the microscope and was the first to observe microorganisms.
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
This theory developed by Kepler describes the elliptical orbits of planets around the sun.
What are Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion?
This influential book by Francis Bacon laid out the principles of scientific method.
What is "Novum Organum"?
The mathematical study of change pioneered by Newton and Leibniz is essential to modern science.
What is calculus?
This German astronomer is best known for his laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This German physicist developed an early theory of color and made discoveries about the nature of light.
Who is Christiaan Huygens?
This philosophical view holds that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience and its associated with scientists like Francis Bacon.
What is empiricism?
This Italian Mathematician published "The Starry Messenger" detailing his observations made with the telescope.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This concept introduced by Newton explains the attractive force between masses.
What is gravity?