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He came up with the idea that the sun is in the middle of the universe

What is Nicolaus Copernicus

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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.

What is Telescope

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VOCABULARY WORD: Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

What is Data

100
In the history of science, there was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry... really came along.
What is The Scientific Revolution
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The action or process of being found.
What is Discovery
200

He 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.

What is Galileo Galilei

200

An instrument used for looking at very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times.

What is Microscope

200
Invention: 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
What is Steam Engine (pump)
200
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.
What is The Scientific Method
200
A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.
What is Scientist
300

He 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.

What is Isaac Newton

300

Invented by Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel it is like an underwater boat.

What is Submarine

300
Invention: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a machine for calculating which was a major advance in mechanical calculating.
What is Calculating machine (calculator)
300
The word for the idea that the earth is in the center of the universe.
What is Geocentric
300
The idea that the sun is in the center of the universe.
What is Heliocentric
400

He 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.

What is Johannes Kepler

400
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It was invented by Evangelista Torricelli
What is Barometer
400
Key Figure: This guy is also known as the father of microbiology. In fact he was the one who invented the microscope.
What is Anton von Leeuwonhoek
400
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. Guessing.
What is Hypothesis
400
Trusting reason rather than feelings to decide one's beliefs or actions.
What is Rationalism
500

His scientific research, conducted during the seventeenth century most affected the field of chemistry.

Who is Robert Boyle

500
The method Jean-Baptiste Denys invents that transfer blood or blood components from one donor to the recipient ( receiver)
What is Method for blood transfusing.
500
KEY FIGURE: 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.
What is William Harvey
500
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.
What is Orbits
500
Something, typically a process or device, that has been created or constructed.
What is Inventions