Scientific Revolution Vocab

a written source, such as a book, magazine, or newspaper

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• Conclude

• Rationalism

• Scientific Method

The belief that knowledge is gained by thinking things through using reason without resort to experience

• Conclude

• Rationalism

• Minutemen

• Heresy

the theory that the planets revolve around the sun

• Heliocentric Theory

• Geocentric Theory

The theory that the planets revolve around the earth

• Heliocentric Theory

• Geocentric Theory

theory that all knowledge is gained through experience and observing with the senses

• Conclude

• Heresy

• Empiricism

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to decide as a result of thinking or reasoning

• Confer

• Conniption

• Console

• Conclude

Heresy

• a belief that is rejected by official church doctrine

• loyally following all of the teachings by the church

• to decide as a result of thinking or reasoning

• the theory that the planets revolve around the sun

Scientific Method

• The belief that knowledge is gained by thinking things through using reason without resort to experience

• The belief that we are all living in a computer simulation

• the method of using observation, experiments, and careful reasoning to gain new knowledge

• Accepting that truth is impossible to find

the process of looking at specific facts and making general principles or rules based on those facts

• Inductive reasoning

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• Heresy

• Podiatry