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Why did the Catholic Church put Galileo on trial?
For supporting the view that the planets orbit the sun
What is the scientific method?
a set of steps that scientists follow.
What did Galileo invent?
thermometer
What did Brahe do?
charted the positions of hundreds of stars.
What did Rene Descartes believe?
believed that nothing should be accepted as true if it isn't proven to be true.
What did Newton do when he studied and simplified the work of earlier scientists?
Added his own observations and ideas
Reviewed everything scientists had been learning
Identified theories that described the operation of the physical world
What did Sir Issac Newton do?
put forth important theories in his book Principia Mathemtica.
What is a theory?
a logical explanation for observed fact
What did Bacon and Descartes establish?
observation and experimentation as the principles of modern science by developing the scientific method.
What did Kepler do?
said the planets do not have circular orbits.
Who used logic and reason to explain what they observed in nature?
Greek rationalists
What is a barometer?
an instrument that measures air pressure.
Who contributed to science the idea that people should observe the world carefully and draw logical conclusions about what they see?
Aristotle
What is one way that religion promoted knowledge?
Religious scholars translated about Greek ideas
What did Nicolaus Copernicus do?
The first scientist to argue that the planets orbited the sun