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Age of Science
Middle School
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Idea that people should use reason, or logical thought, to understand the world | Rationalism |
| Theory, developed by Aristotle, that Earth is at the center of the universe | Geocentric Theory |
| Things combining well with each other to form a whole | Harmony |
| The structure of a living thing | Anatomy |
| Cutting open plants or animals to study and investigate their parts | Dissection |
| Greek physician of the AD 100s who studied the anatomy of living things and learned that arteries are filled with blood, not air | Galen |
| Muslim mathematician who developed algebra and whose work resulted in the Arabic number system still used today | al-Khwarizmi |
| Jewish scholar from the AD 1300s who determined the stars were much farther away than previously believed | Gersonides |
| Empire whose collapse in the mid-1400s caused many scholars to flee to Italy; their knowledge helped fuel the development of the Renaissance | Byzantine Empire |
| Period beginning in the 1500s when European scholars questioned classical scientific ideas and Christian beliefs | Scientific Revolution |
| Theory that the stars, Earth, and other planets revolve around the sun; means sun-centered | Heliocentric |
| Isaac Newton's theory that a natural force drawing objects toward each other acts on all physical objects throughout the universe | Universal Gravitation |
| Process that involves observing a subject, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and drawing a conclusion | Scientific Method |
| Polish astronomer who developed the theory that the stars, Earth, and other planets revolve around the sun | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Italian scientist of the 16th and 17th centuries whose work put him in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church | Galileo |
| Instrument that measures the pressure of Earth's atmosphere | Barometer |
| English politician and scientist who developed the scientific method and believed in using rational, organized thought in both science and government | Sir Francis Bacon |
| Way of thinking based on the ideas of Descartes and Bacon that stated rational thought should be used to understand the world | Scientific Rationalism |
| Period beginning in the 1500s when European scholars questioned classical scientific ideas and Christian beliefs | Scientific Revolution |
| Dutch scientist who built microscope in 1670s, which magnified objects by 250 to 300 times, used to observe blood flow through capillaries | Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
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