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ScientificRevolution
Blue Team--ScientificRevolution
Question | Answer |
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Scientific Revolution | 1500-1700; beginning of modern science in western Europe |
Ptolemy | ancient Roman astronomer; geocentric theory |
Geocentric Theory | Ptolemy; all planets and the sun revolve around the earth |
Heliocentric Theory | Copernicus; all planets revolve aroun the sun |
Laws of Planetary Motion | Tycho Brahe; all planets move in elliptical orbits |
Telescope | Galileo; helped prove the Heliocentric Theory |
Theory of Gravity | Newton; natural force that causes objects to fall to Earth and planet to stay in orbits |
Scientific Method | process of scientific investigation used during the Scientific Revolution |
Books | scientists wrote their ideas in these; ideas spread quickly |
Printing Press | machine used for printing books |
Johannes Gutenberg | invented the printing press, 1450 |
Parchment | sheep skin pages |
Vellum | calf skin pages |
Carolingian Script | font used by Gutenberg; replaced Gothic Script |
Moveable Type | invented by China and used by Gutenberg; individual letters used in printing |
Synthesize | to combine or blend together |
Paper | invented by China and used by Gutenberg; replaced parchment and vellum |
Wine press screw | used by Gutenberg to press paper against moveable type |
Gutenberg Bible | first book printed on a printing press |
Literacy | the ability to read |
Protestant Reformation | split in the Roman Catholic Church of Western Europe |
Martin Luther | German monk whose ideas led to the Protestant Reformation |
95 Theses | book written by Martin Luther |
Indulgences | payments or donation made to the Church to earn salvation |
Faith Alone | Martin Luther; faith is enough to earn salvation |
Excommunication | removal from the Church and the chance for salvation |