The Scientific Revolution - Vocab Only

belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge

• rationalism

• geocentric

• orbit

• projectile

having the Earth at the center of the universe

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• Copernican Theory

• data

the path that one heavenly body (such as a planet) follows around another (such as the sun)

• orbit

• projectile

• mass

• hypothesis

an object that is fired or launched, such as a cannon ball

• projectile

• mass

• hypothesis

• geocentric

having the sun as the center of the universe

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• orbit

• projectile

the amount of matter in an object

• mass

• data

• microscope

• projectile

the theory that the sun was at the center of the universe

• Copernican Theory

• geocentric

• thermometer

• barometer

an idea or assumption to be tested in an experiment

• hypothesis

• mass

• data

• Copernican Theory

facts or information that have been observed in an experiment

• data

• hypothesis

• mass

• projectile

invented by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and allowed him to be the first to see bacteria

• microscope

• thermometer

• barometer

• telescope