Scientific Revolution
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11 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 theory | an explanation of how or why something happens |
| rationalism | the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge |
| scientific method | an orderly way of collecting and analyzing data |
| hypothesis | proposed explanation of the facts |
| Ptolemy | stated the sun and the planets moved around the earth in circular patterns |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | stated that the planets moved in circular paths around the Sun |
| Johannes Kepler | supported the heliocentric theory and added that planets moved in ellipses rather than circular paths |
| Galileo Galilei | believed knew knowledge could come through experiments that were carefully carried out |
| Isaac Newton | developed laws about motion of objects in space and on earth, the most important was the law of universal gravitation |
| Rene Descartes | searched for truth through mathematical explanations, noted for saying "I think, therefore I am" |
| Francis Bacon | developed the scientific method |
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