He came up with the idea that the sun is in the middle of the universe.
Who 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 a Telescope?
100
VOCABULARY WORD:
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
What is Data?
100
The name for this time in the history of science when there was a period of new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry.
What is The Scientific Revolution?
100
The action or process of being found out.
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.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
200
An instrument used for looking at very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times.
What is a Microscope?
200
Invention:
Thomas Savery's water pumping device was a machine that solved the problem of pumping water out of coal mines.
What is the 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 in one or more branches of discovery.
What is a 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. According to legend, he is also the person that figured out gravity after an apple fell onto his head.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
Invented by Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel it is like an underwater boat.
What is a Submarine?
300
Invention:
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented this machine that added up numbers.
What is a Calculator?
300
The word for the idea that the earth is in the center of the universe.
What is Geocentric Theory?
300
The idea that the sun is in the center of the universe.
What is the Heliocentric model?
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.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It was invented by Evangelista Torricelli.
What is Barometer?
400
Key Figure:
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
Definition: Trusting reason rather than feelings to decide one's beliefs or actions.
What is Rationalism?
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
The method Jean-Baptiste Denys invents that transfer blood or blood components from one donor to a recipient.
What is blood transfusion?
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.
Who is William Harvey?
500
The path that planets take around the sun.
What are Orbits?
500
Something, typically a process or device, that has been created or constructed.