Terms
Key People
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This word come from a Latin word meaning "knowledge" or "understanding".
What is science?
100
One of the Greek thinkers in ancient times who wrote about astronomy, geography, and logic and were the roots of the revolution
Who is Aristotle or Ptolemy?
200
An explanation scientists develop to explain observed facts.
What is a theory?
200
The author of "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres" and a Polish astronomer thought that the planets moved around the sun in circular orbits.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
A step-by-step process for performing experiments and other scientific research
What is the scientific method?
300
German astronomer who discovered that the planets did not move in circular orbits
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
The series of events that led to the birth of modern science
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
An Italian scientist who was the first person to study the sky with a telescope discovered that there were craters and mountains on the moon and moons orbit Jupiter.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
Name two of the Scientific Revolution inventions
Thermometer, microscope, telescope, barometer
500
An English scientist who wrote "Principia Mathematica" discovered the law of gravity and the laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?