Key Figures
Who came up with the idea that the sun is in the middle of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
An instrument designed to make distant objects appear closer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors it does just that. Generally used to look out into space
Telescope
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis
Data
In the history of science, there was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry... really came along
The Scientific Revolution
The action or process of being found.
Discovery
Who improved the telescope, described the path of projectiles, an object that is fired or launched, found out that the moon’s surface is rough and uneven, he discovered 4 moons around Jupiter, and he also studied Venus and found out that like the moon Venus also had different phases which made him realized that since Venus had phases like the moon then it must be traveling around the sun.
Galileo Galilei
An instrument used for looking at very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times.
Microscope
Thomas Savery's water pumping machine was a machine that back then solved the problem of pumping water out of coal mines. It was a kind of pump
Steam Engine
A method of procedure that has described natural science since the 17th century. The steps for this method are, ask a Question, research, make a hypothesis, experiment, and make a conclusion.
The Scientific Method
A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.
Scientist
Who discovered the laws of gravitation. His law of universal gravitation states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. He is also the person that figured all of that out after an apple fell on his head.
Isaac Newton
Invented by Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel it is like an underwater boat
Submarine
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a machine for calculating which was a major advance in mechanical calculating.
Calculating machine
The word for the idea that the earth is in the center of the universe
Geocentric
The idea that the sun is in the center of the universe.
Heliocentric
Who improved Copernicus's theory, that the sun is in the center of the universe, and figured out that the orbits of the planets aren't actually circular but ellipse.
Johannes Kepler
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It was invented by Evangelista Torricelli
Barometer
This guy is also known as the father of microbiology. In fact he was the one who invented the microscope.
Anton von Leeuwonhoek
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. Guessing.
Hypothesis
Trusting reason rather than feelings to decide one's beliefs or actions.
Rationalism
Who published three works in which he wrote that the universe was of infinite size, and that the Earth, sun, and planets were all moving constantly inside it, and weren't located at its center.
Giordano Bruno
The method Jean-Baptiste Denys invents that transfer blood or blood components from one donor to the recipient ( receiver)
Method for blood transfusing
He was the first to demonstrate that the circulation of blood through the human body is continuous, rather than consisting of different types circulating through the veins and arteries
William Harvey
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon... ex. The path that the planets take around the sun.
Orbits
Something, typically a process or device, that has been created or constructed.
Inventions