Word Wall World History

an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General for England

• GALILEO

• FRANCIS BACON

• NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

• ISAAC NEWTON

a superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center

• RATIONALISM

• GEOCENTRIC THEORY

• HELIOCENTRIC THEORY

• SCIENTIFIC METHOD

a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries; marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period

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• SCIENTIFIC METHOD

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• GLORIOUS REVOLOUTION

an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author; best known for having invented the calculus

• ISAAC NEWTON

• NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

• GALILEO

• FRANCIS BACON

a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

• SCIENTIFIC REVOLOUTION

• RATIONALISM

• SCIENTIFIC METHOD

• GEOCENTRIC THEORY

an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer; considered the father/hero of modern science

• FRANCIS BACON

• NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

• GALILEO

• ISAAC NEWTON

Bloodless Revolution; involved the overthrow of the Catholic King James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange; the sequence of events leading to the deposition of King James II and VII of England and Scotland

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• RATIONALISM

• INDUSTRIAL REVOLOUTION

• GLORIOUS REVOLOUTION

the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine; transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States

• INDUSTRIAL REVOLOUTION

• GLORIOUS REVOLOUTION

• SCIENTIFIC REVOLOUTION

• RATIONALISM

belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response; a method of thinking that is marked by being a deductive and abstract way of reasoning

• SCIENTIFIC REVOLOUTION

• GEOCENTRIC THEORY

• SCIENTIFIC METHOD

• RATIONALISM

mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center

• GALILEO

• FRANCIS BACON

• ISAAC NEWTON

• NICOLAUS COPERNICUS