Scientific Method Flashcards
Anglican
of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.
95 theses
propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences
Counter Reformation
also called the Catholic Reformation (Latin: Reformatio Catholica) or the Catholic Revival
Zwingli
was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
Ignatius of Loyola
A sixteenth-century Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Church; the founder of the Jesuits.
Council of Trent
held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy,
Jesuits
a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola,
City-State
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution refers to the rapid advances in European scientific, mathematical, and political thought, based on a new philosophy of empiricism and a faith in progress that defined Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Heliocentric Theory
theory that the earth revolves around the sun is called the heliocentric theory,
Roger Bacon
also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis (Latin for “wondrous doctor”), was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar
Kepler
German astronomer and mathematician who is considered the founder of celestial mechanics
Galileo
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
Scientific Method
a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century,
Newton
the SI unit of force.
