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World History Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Geocentric Theory | The Earth is the center of the Universe |
| Heliocentric Theory | The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. |
| Ptolemy | His ideas on science influenced Muslim and European scholars from Roman times until the Scientific Revolution. He was a Greece-Roman writer famous as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet. |
| Kepler | This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical, the planets do not orbit at a constant speed, and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun. |
| Copernicus | Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center, and not earth. |
| Scientific Revolution | A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. |
| Aristotle | A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato. |
| Galileo | He was the first person to use a telescope to observe objects in space. He discovered that planets and moons are physical bodies because of his studies of the night skies. |
| Newton | A unit of measure that equals the force required to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass at 1 meter per second per second. |
| Law of Universal Gravitation | The scientific law that states that every object in the universe attracts every other object. |
| Vesalius | This was the scientist who began to study anatomy in depth. He is referred as the father of anatomy. |
| Fahrenheit | A temperature scale with the freezing point of water 32 degrees and the boiling point of 212 degrees |
| Bacon | This scientist spread the word about the experimental method and formalized the empirical method and combined his thinking with Descartes to form the scientific method. |
| Descartes | (1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical geometry. Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to spiritual or physical. |
| Scientific Method | A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions. |
| Jansen | Ideas of 17th century French Catholics who favored Calvinist interpretation of Christianity just the same. |
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