Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Quiz

Time period between the 1500s-1700s that challenged traditional world views on science and astronomy/astrology

View that focuses on one's self instead of religious or supernatural beings.

Introduced by Francis Bacon, uses knowledge through observation and experimentation. Still used today

Developed by Copernicus and states that planets revolve around the sun, this is the theory we use today

Earth is the center of the universe, this is an outdated theory

Published laws of Planetary Motion, planets have an oval shaped orbit around the sun

First to make systematic observations through a telescope

Introduced the Laws of Motion, this theory was not widespread until the early 1900s

Her and husband discovered a comet, denied membership to the Berlin Academy of Science due to her gender

Time period between 1600s-1700s where people approved of individualism and rationalism