Scientific Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

Earth-centered, a system of planetary motions in which the sun, moon & other planets revolve around the Earth.

• Geocentric

• Natural philosophers

• spheres

a person who studies & tries to explain the world; scholars or thinkers

• Natural Philosophers

• Geocentric

• Spheres

any of the concentric, revolving, spherical transparent shells in which, according ri ancient astronomy, the stars, sun, planets and moon are set

• Natural Philosophers

• Geocentric

• Spheres

sun centered; the system of the universe in which the planets including Earth, revolve around the sun

• heliocentric

• universal law of gravitation

• rationalism

one of Newton’s three rules of motion, it explains that planetary bodies continue in elliptical orbits around the sun because every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called gravity.

• heliocentric

• Universal Law of Gravitation

• rationalism

a system of thought expounded by Rene Descartes based upon the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.

• heliocentric

• Universal Law of Gravitation

• Rationalism

the doctrine that scientists should proceed from the particular to the general by making systematic observations and conducting carefully organized experiments to test hypotheses or theories; a process that will lead to correct general principles.

• inductive reasoning

• empiricism

• scientific method

a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of the science in the modern world.

• scientific method

• inductive reasoning

• empiricism

The theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation.

• scientific method

• inductive reasoning

• empiricism