Scientific Revolution Quiz

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Nicolaus Copernicus

  • Polish

  • The Heliocentric Theory - The sun is at the center of the universe and the planet and stars revolve around it

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Tycho Brache

  • Danish astronomer

  • Tychonian System - Stated moon and the sun orbit the earth as the other planets orbited the sun

  • Proved theory about the existence of one heaven vs multiple

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Johannes Kepler

  • german astrologer

  • elliptical orbits not circular

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Galileo Galilei

  • created the telescope

  • in disagreement w/ the church, put on house arrest

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Issac Newton

  • father of physics

  • theory of gravity

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Rene Decartes

  • Felt everything should be doubted until proven

  • “I think, therefore I am.”

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Sir Francis Bacon

  • Lawyer

  • Scientific Method