Quizlet Chapter 17, Section 1

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  1. Francis Bacon: an English scientist with few credidentials who agreed with inductive reasoning
  2. Galileo Galili: taught mathematics and published "the starry messenger". spread the ideas of Copernicus
  3. geocentric: earth-centered world
  4. heliocentric: sun-centered
  5. inductive reasoning: the belief that observations should be carefully organized into experiments
  6. Isaac Newton: attended Cambrige university and developed the theory of gravity
  7. Kepler: discovered that the orbit of planets was elliptical
  8. Margaret Cavendish: A woman scientist who was of noble birth and wrote "Observations upon Experimental philosophy"
  9. Maria Wincklemann: a famous female astronomer from germany
  10. Nicholas Copernicus: wrote revolutions of the heavenly spheres and developed the heliocentric theory
  11. Ptolemaic system: the theory that the universe is just a series of spheres and the earth is at the center of it all.
  12. Ptolemy: developed the geocentric theory of the universe
  13. rationalism: a system of thought based on teh belief that reason is the chief source of knowlege
  14. Rene Descartes: wrote about aboudt an uncertainty
  15. Robert Boyle: one of the first scientists to conduct a controlled experiment
  16. scientific method: a way to analyze data
  17. universal law of gravitation: the belief that gravity is what causes the planets to orbit