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Chapter 19
Section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When people believed that the Earth was in the center of the universe and that the sun, moon and planets revolved around the earth. | Geocentric Theory |
| Scholars in Europe during the mid-1500s posed theories about the natural world and developed procedures to text those ideas. | Scientific Revolution |
| A method of inquiry that promotes observing, measuring, explaining, and verifying as a way to gain scientific knowledge. | Scientific Method |
| 1 of the 2 most important scholars who helped develop the scientific method. | Rene Descartes |
| Polish astronomer. He recognized that the geocentric theory did not explain the movements of the sun, moon, and planets accurately. | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Copernicus discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. | Heliocentric Theory |
| Italian scientist. He supported Copernican theory. | Galileo Galilei |
| English scientist. He changed the world of science by bringing together astronomy, physics, and mathematics. | Isaac Newton |