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Scientific Revolution
a more systematic approachto aquiring knowledge about the natural world
Scientific Method
aproaches based on observation, experimentation, and reason
Francis Bacon
encouraged scientists to build their knowledge on inductive reaonsing
Inductive Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
Rene Descartes
wanted scientists to think like students of geometry and use deductive reasoning
Issac Newton
brought both forms of reasoning together into the scientific method
Natural Law
formulation of the general principles about the way the world worked
Mathematics
Astronomy
arragement of the stars; study of the universe beyond earth
Cosmology
branch of astronomy relating to the origin and structure of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
believed in a heliocentric universe; studied the physical world
Heliocentric
controversial theory that the sun was at the center of the solar system
Johannes Keplar
created the theory that the planets had elliptical orbits rather than circular
Galileo Galilei
first European to build and use a telescope
Telescope
Galen
Paracelsus
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
Alchemy
Astrology
