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He came up with the idea that the sun is in the middle of the universe
What is Nicolaus Copernicus
100
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
100

VOCABULARY WORD: treatment for this disease was by inoculation of the disease itself.

What is Smallpox

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
100
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: He wrote that scientists should observe the world and gather information first, then make conclusions from that information

Who is Francis Bacon

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

Written by Andreas Vesalius he dissected human bodies with detailed drawings of human organs, bones and muscles.

What is On the Fabric of the Human Body

300

Invention: This explains how the volume, temperature and pressure of gas effects one another

What is Boyles Law

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 mathematician developed analytical geometry, which links algebra and geometry.  His famous phrase was "I think therefore I am"

Who is Rene Descartes

400
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. Guessing.
What is Hypothesis
400

Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, and William Jenner are known for discoveries in the field of

What is Medicine

500
He 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.
What is Giordano Bruno
500
Robert Boyle founded the use of THIS in chemistry.  Because of this, he was considered the Father of Modern Chemistry

What is Scientific Method.

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