Western Civi1 Word Scramble
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Word | Definition |
The Scientific Revolution | Refers to the period during which foundations of modern science were laid down. |
Nicolas Copernicus | Came up with the heliocentric view of the solar system. |
William Harvey | English physician who discovered that the heart is the reason blood circulates through the human body. |
Galileo | Discovered the use of the telescope, sun spots, mountains & valleys on the moon, largest satellites of Jupiter, the laws of falling bodies and the motions of projectiles, and the phases of Venus. |
Johannes Kepler | Formulated and verified the three laws of planetary motion. |
Sir Francis Bacon | Father of Empiricism. Discovered the scientific method. |
Rene Descartes | The first man to explain the universe in terms of motion & matter. |
Sir Isaac Newton | Discovered the three laws of gravitation. |
Age of Enlightenment | Describes the trends in thought and the letters in Europe & the American colonies during the 18th century. |
John Locke | Discovered Empiricism. |
Thomas Hobbes | One of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state. |
Progress | Forward or onward a movement or destination. |
Deism | The belief in a supreme being. (Thinkers could accept the new rationalism without specifically denying the supernatural.) |
Tolerance | The willingness to tolerate/withstand something. |
Jean Roseau | Deeply influenced the revolution with his political views. |
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