Scientific Revolution 1

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

• Philosopher

• Rationalism

• Rebel

• Activist

A system of thought expounded by René Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge​.

• Atheist

• Rationalism

• Pessimism

• Philosopher

Sun-centered; the system of the universe in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun​.

• Geocentric theory​

• Heliocentric theory ​

• Galileo's Code

• Hammurabi's Code

Earth-centered; a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth​

• Geocentric theory​

• Hammurabi's Code

• Heliocentric theory ​

• Rationalism

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

• Rationalism

• Flat Earth

• Conical Earth

• Sphere

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

• Rationalism

• Inductive Reasoning

• Pessimism

• Atheism

The theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation​.  ___________________ coupled with experimentation and inductive reasoning would lead to a greater understanding of the natural world. ​

• Eclecticism

• Empiricism

• Atheism

• Communism

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

• Rationalism

• Skepticism

• Scientific Method ​

• Inductive Reasoning

Before beginning this reasoning, scientists try to free their minds of opinions that might distort the truth. ​Then they start with detailed facts and proceed toward general principles. From observing natural events, scientists propose hypotheses, or possible explanations, for the events. Then systematic observations and carefully organized experiments to test the hypotheses would lead to correct general principles.

• Empirical Method​

• Scientific Method

• Inductive Reasoning

• Atheism

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.​

• Law of diminishing returns.

• Universal Law of Gravitation

• Law of the Land

• Law of Murphy