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Scientific Revolution Flashcards

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“Revolution” means “major transformation”. What did the scientific revolution transform

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The way people thought about the world

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Who made thermometers more accurate?

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Fahrenheit

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Who figured out that the orbit of planets where not circles, but ellipses

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Kepler

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Who created the three laws of motion

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Newton

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What revolutionary discovery did Copernicus present

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That the Earth revolved around the sun

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What invention made Galileo’s work possible

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The telescope

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What instrument is used for measuring changes in the atmosphere

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Barometer

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Why do people think of Copernicus and Kepler together

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Kepler’s work built on Copernicus’s

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What did the instruments improve

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The study of nature

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What is step one of the scientific method

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Ask a question

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Whose greatest discovery was the laws of gravity?

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Newton

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Who wrote precise mathematical laws describing movements of planets around the sun

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Kepler

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What two men, from the textbook believed that the earth was at the center of the universe?

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Ptolemy

Aristotle

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This man built his ow telescope and discovered the four moons that revolved around Jupiter. (He also believed in the Copernican theory)

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Galileo

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This man outlined a method of scientific investigation that depended on close observation

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Bacon

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This man said that people should doubt every statement until logic proved it true, and believed that the physical universe followed simple mathematics

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Descartes

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What new tool emerged from the scientific revolution?

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Thermometer

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The scientific method is science combined with:

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Observation

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In response to Galileo’s discovery, the church:

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Made him admit that he was wrong

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What discovery was Newton most known for

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Gravity

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What is an object called that is launched or fired like a cannonball

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Projectile

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Sun at center of universe

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Heliocentric

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Earth at center

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Geocentric

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Major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world

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Scientific revolution

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