Scientific Revolution and Key Concepts

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Johannes Kepler's explanation of planetary motion, planets revolve around the sun in this type of pattern.

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Ellipses

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Which scientist is best known for presenting new observations on empiricism and inductive reasoning?

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Francis Bacon

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Isaac Newton was a key figure of the Scientific Revolution and is widely recognized for his ______________?

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Three Laws of Motion

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_________________ is an approach to investigation that consists of a series of steps.

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Scientific Method

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He is best known for building an improved telescope and writing The Dialogue.

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Galileo Galilei

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The heliocentric model of the universe was developed by which person?

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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The geocentric model of the universe was developed by which person?

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Ptolemy

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True or False: During the scientific revolution people started using experiments to test theories rather than just blindly believing the church.

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True

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Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued: That Earth revolved around the sun

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That Earth revolved around the sun

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According to Copernicus, the sun

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Was the center of the Universe