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Question | Answer |
hypothesis | an explanation of the data |
geocentric | earth centered universe |
Galileo Galilei | italian scientist that built the improved telescope |
heresy | anti church teaching |
ptolemy | an egyptian astronomer who believed that the earth centered the universe |
excommunication | to be exile or thrown out of the church |
francis bacon | english thinker that proposed a new approach to studying the world which is the scientific method |
nicolaus copernicus | polish mathematician who came up with the idea of a sun centered universe |
revolution | a sweeping change in science |
johannes kepler | a german mathematician who used mathematical formulas to show planets moved in ellipses. |
astronomers | scientist who study the motion of stars and planets |
heliocentric | a sun centered universe |
scientific method | a new approach to studying science it was invented by francis bacon |
5 scientific steps | observe some aspect of the universe hypothesis about what you observed predict something based on your hypothesis test your predictions through experiments and observation modify hypothesising light of results |
rationalism | belief that all knowledge is based on reason |
william harvey | he was an english scientist who discovered circulation which is the pumping of blood by the heart |
robert hooke | he was an english scientist who discovered cells they are the small structures that make up living tissues |
robert boyle | he was an irish scientist who discovered the definition of elements- materials that cannot be broken down also the composition of air- a mixture of gases |
joseph priestly | was an english scientist who discovered oxygen- one of the gases that make up air. principle of combustion (burning)- the union of oxygen of flammable materials and oxygen |
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