Vocabulary
When someone watches something over a period of time and records information on what they see.
What is an observation?
The head leader of the Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
Galileo Galilee is best known for his contributions to this tool.
What is a telescope?
This model led to major conflict with the Catholic Church.
What is the heliocentric model?
The movement that came before the Scientific Revolution.
What is The Renaissance?
An elongated circle, the path of our planets' orbit. Discovered by Johannes Kepler.
What is an ellipse?
Who is Galileo Galilee?
The scientist who first used the Scientific Method.
Who is Francis Bacon?
Prior to Francis Bacon's discovery, this is what people believed about the creation of life.
What is they believed in spontaneous creation of life, meaning if there were maggots in food, they randomly showed up one day and did not come from another being?
During the Renaissance Era, Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli challenged the accepted knowledge of their time based on _______ which was the foundation of European society.
What is religion?
Someone who believes in or practices religious heresy.
What is a heretic?
The reason the Catholic Church defended the geocentric model of the universe.
What is.. they felt there is no possible way that the universe does NOT revolve around Earth? They believed that is is impossible for the universe to revolve around anything else, other than the planet that Jesus, Son of God walked on?
Scientists believed this could be used to unlock answers about the universe by identifying patterns.
What is mathematics?
Galileo's important discovery about Earth's moon.
What is that the surface was NOT flat?
These thinkers inspired Scientific Revolution thinkers to revisit older discoveries.
Who are the ancient Greeks?
Dominant European economic theory.
What is mercantilism?
A certain type of trial held by the Catholic Church.
What is an Inquisition?
When a scientists conducted an experiment on spontaneous generation of life, they were using a method of controlling factors of the experiment. Today this is known as a...
What is a controlled experiment? Where a scientists controls one factor in the experiment?
The two scientists who are responsible for our knowledge today about the moon's gravitational pull.
Who is Johannes Kepler? Who is Isaac Newton?
Before humanism spread to science, it was primarily affected....
What is humanitites?
During the Scientific Revolution, instead of relying on religion or ancient texts to answer questions about the universe. This mean scientists trusted the human mind to be capable of understanding new things.
What is humanism?
The reason the book The Dialogue of the Two Chief World Systems was so offensive to the church.
What is the depiction that the church was "simple" or not intelligent? This story had 3 characters, one representing Galileo, one Copernicus, and one the church. In this story, the church is made out to be loser in the debate about the universe.
The person who went on to improve Copernicus' idea of planetary orbit by studying and creating the theories we now call Laws of Planetary Motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This person discovered these on the sun and 3 moons orbiting this planet, and they are now named after this scientists.
Who is Galileo Galilee? What are sunspots on th sun? What is Jupiter?
These ancient Greek thinkers believed the Earth was the center of the universe.
Who is Aristotle? Who is Ptolemy?