Enlightenment Test

Distinguished English philosopher, lawyer, statesman. Promoted rational thought.

• Francis Bacon
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo

German astronomer who showed that planets move in a particular orbit around the sun.

• Johannes Kepler
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Galileo
• Francis Bacon

Italian astronomer whose discoveries supported those of Copernicus's. He helped create the modern scientific method.

• Galileo
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Francis Bacon

English mathematician and physician; one of the most important figures of the Scientific Revolution. Wrote laws on motion and gravity.

• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo

an unproved theory accepted for the purposes of explaining certain facts or to provide a basis for further investigation

• Hypothesis
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo

careful, step-by-step process used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis

• Scientific method
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo

7. force that pulls objects in Earth's sphere to the center of Earth

• Gravity
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo

based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe

• Heliocentric
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo
• Francis Bacon

Polish astronomer who created the theory that the planets revolve around the sun, a theory which was a direct threat to the religious views of his day.

• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo
• Francis Bacon

a branch of mathematics in which calculations are made using special symbolic notations, developed by Isaac Newton

• Calculus
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Heliocentric
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo