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Scientific Revolution Terms
Matching exercise
Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
| Geocentric | Aristelian world-view |
| Copernicus | Polish astronomer with heliocentric theory |
| Galileo | Italian scientist - formulated law of Inertia |
| Newton | English scientist formulated the laws of gravity |
| Bacon | English politician formulated empirical method |
| Bacon | Danish astronomer (1561-1601) |
| Descartes | Wrote Discourse on Methods |
| The Royal Society of London | Center for scientific activity |
| The Royal Society of London | Established by Charles II to help science |
| Harvey | Blood circulates through the human body |
| On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres | Copernicus wrote? |
| . Kepler | Brahe's assistant formulated 3 laws of motion |
| Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World | Galileo wrote? |
| Principia | Newton wrote? |
| Dualism | Descartes idea that the world consists of two fundamental entities |
| . Inductive method | Proceed from the particular to the general; from the concrete to the abstract |
| Deductive method | Start at the general and then get specific |
| Discourse on Method | Descartes wrote? |
| I think therefore I am | Cogito ergo sum |
| Ptolemy | Second century Greek scientist |
| Almagest | Ptolemy wrote |