The Scientific Revolution - Vocab Only

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Belief in reason and logic as the main source of knowledge

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rationalism

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Earth at the center of the universe

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geocentric

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Path of a heavenly body around another.

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orbit

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An object fired or launched, like a cannonball.

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Projectile

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Sun as center of universe

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heliocentric

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Amount of matter in an object

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mass

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Theory that the sun is at the universe's center

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Copernican Theory

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Idea or assumption to test in an experiment

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hypothesis

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Facts or info observed in an experiment

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data

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Invented by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, first to see bacteria.

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Microscope