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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

VOCABULARY WORD: The force of attraction between all masses in the universe, mathematically described by Isaac Newton, which helped explain planetary motion and unified the understanding of earthly and celestial mechanics.

What is Gravity

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

Wilhelm Schickard (1623) Created the first mechanical device with gears for addition, subtraction, and multiplication, as well as a system to record the data. 

What is the calculator

300

VOCABULARY WORD: A medieval mystical pursuit like turning base metals into gold, but whose experimental techniques laid some foundational groundwork for later chemistry.

What is Alchemy

300
The word for the idea that the earth is in the center of the universe.
What is Geocentric
300

What is 

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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 

400

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It was invented by a student of Galileo Galilei, Evangelista Torricelli.

What is 

400

KEY FIGURE: (1596-1650) A French philosopher and mathematician who contributed significantly to the rationalist approach to the scientific method and invented the Cartesian coordinate system, foundational to analytic geometry. Known to have said, "I think, therefore, I am."

What is René Descartes

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

(1561-1626) An English philosopher who championed an inductive approach to scientific inquiry, popularizing the scientific method which emphasizes empirical observation and experimentation.

What is 

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 for the first time.

What is Inventions