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Scientific Revolution Flashcards

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greatest astronomer of Antiquity

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Ptolemy

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It is when rotation spheres makes bodies rotate (moon-mercury-venus-sun) with the 10th sphere that moves itself and gives motion to other spheres.

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Ptolemaic system

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Polish astronomer who said the universe was heliocentric

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Nicolas Copernicus

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Who wrote “on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres”

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Copernicus

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German who said orbits were elliptical

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Johannes Kepler

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The first european to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope

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Galileo Galilei

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Mountain on earth’s moon, four moons around jupiter, sun spots and heavenly bodies are material substance were discovered by?

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Galileo Galilei

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This book was under suspicion of the church and was written by Galileo G

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The starry messenger

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This books contains the laws of motion and universal law of gravitation

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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy/ Principia

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Who dissected animals therefore creating the human anatomy? (greek)

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Galen

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Who dissected human bodies in U of Padua and described organs and their gen structure?

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Andreas Vesalius

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What did William Harvey discover

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Heart was the beginning of blood circulation

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Who is Blaise Pascal?

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Made the pascal’s law which describes how LIQUID behaves when exerted pressure

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Who was Antoine Lavosoisier?

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Founder of modern chemistry and a system for naming chemical compounds

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Who wrote Observations Upon Experimental philosohy (humans through science are masters of nature)

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Margaret Cavendish

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Self-taught astronomer who was an assistant to her husband and helped in the discovery of a comet. Was rejected in berlin acad

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Maria Winkelmann

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Father of Modern Rationalism

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Rene Descartes

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Separation of mind and matter (matter is inert)

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descartes

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What did Rene Descartes write?

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Discourse on Method

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It is a Systemic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence

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Scientific Method

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Inductive reasoning

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Proceeding from the particular to general or domination of nature

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Sequence of Sci Meth

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Observe a natural event-hypothesis-experiment-analyze result and decide if results support hypo if yes publish if not start from experiment until results support the hypo

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Main view of The universe according to Ptolemy

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Geocentric

24
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Explain Boyle’s law

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Volume of gas is dependent on pressure exerted on it)

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