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286405860Ptolemaic system- -1) planets evolve around the earth; 2) planets evolve around the sun - - -0
286405861Geocentric- -Belief that everything revolves around the Earth - - -1
286405862Tycho BraheInfluenced by Copernicus; Built observatory and collected data on the locations of stars and planets for over 20 years; His limited knowledge of mathematics prevented him from making much sense out of the data.2
286405863Heliocentric- -Theory that the sun is center of the universe - - -3
286405864Rationalism- -Belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge - - -4
286405865Scientific Method- -A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses - - -5
286405866Scientific Revolution- -When scientists began doing research in a new way using the scientific method -Era between 16th and 18th centuries - -6
284794813Galileo-Italian astronomer and mathematician -Was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries -(1564-1642) - -7
284796485Francis Bacon-English politician and writer -Advocated that new knowledge was acquired through an inductive reasoning process (using specific examples to prove or draw conclusion from a general point) called empiricism; rejected Medieval view of knowledge based on tradition, believed it's necessary to collect data, observe, and draw conclusions. - - -This was the foundation of the scientific method8
284794814Isaac Newton-English mathematician and scientist -Invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation, presented in Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.9
286405867HypothesisA proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations10
284796486Nicholas CopernicusHe believed in a heliocentric, or sun-centered, conception of the universe. He argued that the Sun was at the center of the universe. The planets revolved around the sun.11
286405868René Descartes...12
286405869Johannes Kepler...13
286405870Zacharias Janssen...14
286405871Anton van Leeuwenhoek...15
286405872Evangelista Torricelli...16
286405873Gabriel Fahrenheit...17
286405874Anders Celsius...18
286405875Andreas Vesalius...19
286405876Edward Jenner...20
286405877Robert Boyle...21

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