Scientific Revolution

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A word which means related to the Middle Ages

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Medieval

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What group was the authority on knowledge in Europe before the Scientific Revolution?

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Catholic Church

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a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment; a scholar or a thinker

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Philosopher

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An invention that allowed for the mass production of books and helped cause the Scientific Revolution

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Printing Press

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This was the theory that earth stood motionless in space while other planets moved around the earth along outer spheres

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Geocentric

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The system of the universe in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun

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Heliocentric

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He was the first to challenge the geocentric system using mathematics to suggest the heliocentric system instead.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Who proved that the planets orbit around the sun in an elliptical shape?

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Johannes Kepler

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Who improved the telescope to discover that Jupiter had moons, supporting the heliocentric theory?

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Galileo Galilei

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Who discovered the force of gravity that allowed for the explanation of the heliocentric theory among many other natural occurrences?

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Isaac Newton