SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION VOCABULARY VOCABULARY GEOCENTRIC having or relating
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY: GEOCENTRIC “having or relating to the earth as center” *Ptolemy (Merriam Webster)
VOCABULARY: HELIOCENTRIC “having or relating to the sun as center” *Nicolaus Copernicus (Merriam Webster)
GALILEO’S 2 MAJOR WORKS: “The Starry Messenger” “Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems”
VOCABULARY: UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION “…Every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called gravity. ” (Merriam Webster)
INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS • Zacharias Janssen – invented the microscope • Galileo Galilei – invented thermometer • Gabriel Fahrenheit – later improved thermometer • Hans Lippershey – first devised the telescope, which was then built a year later by Galileo (Frick 16)
VOCABULARY: FAMOUS QUOTE “I think therefore I am” -Rene Descartes
VOCABULARY: RATIONALISM “a view that reason and experience rather than the nonrational are the fundamental criteria in the solution of problems” (Merriam Webster)
VOCABULARY: SCIENTIFIC METHOD “A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence. ” “The scientific method was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world. ” (Spielvogel 309)
QUESTION Q: Who Invented the Scientific Method? A: Francis Bacon
VOCABULARY: INDUCTIVE REASONING “Proceeding from the particular to the general” (Merriam Webster)
EVANGELIZE “ 1: to preach the gospel to” “ 2: to convert to Christianity” (Merriam Webster)
INQUISITION “a former Roman Catholic court for the discovery and punishment of heresy” (Merriam Webster)
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