Terms
This is the term for the universe being viewed as Earth-Centered
Geocentric
This publication by Galileo made Europeans more aware of the Universe
Starry Messenger
This scientist would introduce the heliocentric concept of the universe
Copernicus
This scientist would discover a comet with her husband.
Maria Winckelmann
This invention allowed ideas to be spread quickly and enabled scientific progress to move at a faster pace.
The Printing Press
This is the term for the universe being viewed as sun-centered.
Heliocentric
This publication by Kepler contributed to the expansive ideas of the Scientific Revolution
Harmonices Mundi
This scientist would use astronomical data to arrive at the laws of planetary motion.
Johannes Kepler
This female scientist was critical of the growing belief that humans, through science, were masters of nature.
Margaret Cavendish
The rediscovery of ancient methods of this deductive reasoning was seen as the key to navigation, military science, and geography
Mathematics
This is a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that is crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world
The Scientific Method
Nicolaus Copernicus published this book that focused on a heliocentric universe
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
This scientist would be excommunicated from the Catholic church and eventually go blind to prove the universe is heliocentric.
Galileo
This male scientist would look at the laws of elasticity through his work with the microscope.
Robert Hooke
This was a way to view the world discovered in the Middle Ages using the work of Ptolemy.
The Ptolemaic System
This is a system of thought expounded by Rene Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
Rationalism
This is the name of Isaac Newton's major work.
Principia or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
This scientist is often considered the greatest genius of the Scientific Revolution and his laws still rule science to this day.
Issac Newton
These 2 scientists added to the understanding of the human body through their study of anatomy.
Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey
Robert Hooke used this invention to study living matter
The Microscope
This is the theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation
empiricism
This is the publication by Margaret Cavendish that had her writings on scientific matters
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy
This scientist is considered the father of Microbiology
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
This scientist would create a classification system for living things.
Carolus Linnaeus
This universal law explains why the planetary bodies continue their elliptical orbits around the sun.
Universal Law of Gravitation