Shock to The Solar System
The Geocentric or the Ptolemaic system
Newton discovered that this force is what attracted objects to each other.
Gravity
This Greek physician's teachings dominated the medical field in the late middle ages.
Galen
This woman despite not being formally educated was able to publish Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy.
Margaret Cavendish
Author of Discourse on Method, French Philosopher whose ideas dominated the Western world until the 20th century
Rene Descartes
This is the theory that the sun is the center of the solar system.
Heliocentric system
Isaac Newton taught this subject at Cambridge University
Mathematics
These two scientists made breakthrough discoveries about human anatomy by dissecting human bodies.
William Harvey and Andreas Vesalius
This female astronomer was credited with discovering a comet
Maria Winkelmann
French Philosopher that stated, "I think therefore I am." And "the mind cannot be doubted but the body and material world can."
Rene Descartes
This is what Galileo used in order to make his observations of space.
Telescope
This new concept would later replace Newton's concepts of natural law in terms of dominating people's world view.
Einstein's theory of Relativity
This French Scientist discoveries lead to the development of the Syringe and the hydraulic press
Pascal
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Theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation
Empiricism
This scientist theorized that the planets would take an elliptical orbit around the sun instead of circular
Kepler
This law states that planetary bodies continue their elliptical orbits about the sun, and that every object in the Universe is attracted to every other object
Universal Law of Gravitation
Until William Harvey was able to prove him wrong, Galen's belief was that blood actually pumped out of this part of the body.
Liver
This is why Winkelmann was rejected from the Berlin Academy when she applied for an assistant Astronomer position.
She had no university degree, and the Academy didn't want to "set a bad example by hiring a woman."
System of thought developed by Rene Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
rationalism
This is the gas planet with four moons that Galileo is credited with discovering.
Jupiter
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy or Principa
This scientist developed a system of naming chemical elements, that is still used today, and is considered the founder of modern chemistry.
Antoine Lavosier
Maria Winkelmannn's husband also a famous astronomer from Prussia.
Gottfried Kirch
The doctrine that scientists should proceed from the particular to the general by aking systematic observations and carefully organized experiments to test hypotheses or theories, a process that will lead to correct general principals
inductive reasoning