Enter Category NCATEGORY 1: Key Scientists
This scientist is credited with developing the scientific method.
Who is Francis Bacon?
The theory that the Sun is at the center of the universe.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This scientist challenged Church teachings with the heliocentric model.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
Galileo used this tool to observe the sky.
What is a telescope?
The Scientific Revolution was sparked by this earlier period.
What is the Renaissance?
He discovered that blood circulates through the body.
Who is William Harvey?
The theory that planets revolve around Earth.
What is the Geocentric Theory?
The Church rejected the ideas of these two scientists.
Who are Bacon and Galileo?
This invention helped scientists share ideas more easily.
What is the printing press?
Most major breakthroughs occurred during this century.
What is the 16th century?
He formulated the laws of motion and explained gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Scientists began studying this to better understand diseases.
What is human anatomy?
Copernicus thought his ideas seemed “absurd” because they contradicted this model.
What is the geocentric model?
The scientific method is a process designed to reduce this.
What is bias?
The Scientific Revolution encouraged people to do this instead of accepting old ideas.
What is ask questions?
This scientist used a telescope to observe the night sky.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This type of reasoning starts with observations and forms a conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
Enlightenment thought promoted this over unquestioned faith.
What is reason?
This type of reasoning starts with a general rule and applies it to a specific case.
What is deductive reasoning?
People began viewing the universe as this, governed by predictable laws.
What is a giant machine?
This thinker said, “I think, therefore I am.”
Who is René Descartes?
Kepler’s First Law states that planets move in these types of orbits.
What are elliptical orbits?
Before the Scientific Revolution, people relied on these two sources for knowledge.
Who are Aristotle and the Church?
This scientist is known as the “Father of Modern Chemistry.”
Who is Robert Boyle?
This belief of 17th‑century scientists said humans were given reason to understand creation.
What is “God gave humans reason to observe and describe the world”?