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The Scientific Method
The Church
Old ideas, New ideas
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100
the father of experimental science
Who is Galileo?
100
Theories can be proven as these
What are facts?
100
Someone who disagrees with official church teaching
What is a heretic?
100
early experimentation to turn base metals into gold
What is alchemy?
100
the series of events that led to the birth of modern science
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
the first astronomer to say that the Earth orbits the Sun
Who is Copernicus?
200
An explanation based on facts
What is a theory?
200
The Church wanted Galileo to admit this
What is the earth is the center of the universe -or- a geocentric universe?
200
Kelper's discovery about the universe
What is the planets orbits in elliptical patterns?
200
Newton's Laws of Motion were a new way to explain this
What is how the physical world works?
300
groups that preserved ancient knowledge in translation
Who are Muslims and Jews?
300
These lead to theories
What are observations?
300
People like this scholar started to doubt everything, including the Church's teachings
Who is Rene Descartes?
300
Exploration and discovery challenged his maps
Who is Ptolemy?
300
The effect of the Scientific Revolution on people's ideas about society?
What is science could improve their lives and society?
400
a scientist who argued science should be pursued in a systematic fashion
Who is Francis Bacon?
400
Tests used to prove of disprove theories
What are experiments?
400
Galileo's justification for searching for knowledge when the Church told him not to experiment
What is he was only observing what was already there?
400
An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by another force?
What is one of Newton's Laws of Motion?
400
The Scientific Revolution followed this "new" period of history in Europe?
What is the Renaissance?
500
a scientist who emphasized careful and detailed recording of information
Who is Tycho Brahe?
500
An idea that has not been tested
What is a hypothesis?
500
The reason the Church and science came into conflict
What is contradictions weakened the Church's power?
500
The sun is the center of the universe
What is heliocentric?
500
Where people got their knowledge from before the Scientific Revolution
What is ... (defend your answer)