Scientific revolution vocabulary

Acceleration

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• A scientist who studies celestial bodies

• Foundation

• The basis for a system, idea, or theory

• Firmament

• Relating to the sky or outer space,

• Conquest 

• The act of acquiring control

• Celestial

• An term referring to the sky or heavens

• Astronomer

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• distance between successive wave crests

• Renaissance

• Cultural movement from 14th to 17th

• Telescope

• The process of changing position

• Theories

• An optical instrument

• Wavelength

• Well-substantiated explanations

• Motion

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• Moving backward in time

• Retrograde

• Acting primarily in one's own benefit

• Utilitarianism

• concept describing human existence

• State of Nature 

• The greatest happiness for the greatest number

• Social Contract

• An agreement among individuals to form a society

• Self-Interested 

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• Renaissance Thinker

• Black Hole

• Light Refraction

• Prism

• Path of a Planet

• Polymath

• Sun-Centered Model

• Orbit

• Region of Space with Gravitational Pull

• Heliocentrism

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• Analysis of light spectra

• Reflection

• Repetitive occurrence

• Publication

• Returning light

• Periodic 

• Validity of claims 

• Spectral Analysis

• Dissemination of research

• Authenticity 

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• Device for viewing distant objects

• Reaction

• Response to a stimulus

• Orbit

• Ruler with absolute power

• Tyrant 

• Force that attracts objects towards each other

• Gravity

• Path of a celestial body

• Telescope

Tags

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• Period of cultural revival

• Motion

• Release of a written work

• Publication

• Resistance to change in motion

• Renaissance

• Force attracting objects

• Gravity

• Change in position

• Inertia 

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• New ideas that drive progress

• Brutish 

• Thoughtful consideration of past experiences

• Innovation

• Rough and aggressive behavior

• Reflection

• Differences that may lead to conflict

• Controversial

• Subject to debate and differing opinions

• Discrepancies

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• A collection of works

• Canon

• Relating to the sky or space

• Celestial

• Studies celestial objects

• Calculus

• Branch of physics dealing with the universe

• Astrophysics 

• Mathematics of change

• Astronomer