Scientific revolution vocabulary

Acceleration

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• The basis for a system, idea, or theory

• Foundation

• An term referring to the sky or heavens

• Celestial

• The act of acquiring control

• Astronomer

• Relating to the sky or outer space,

• Firmament

• A scientist who studies celestial bodies

• Conquest 

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• The process of changing position

• Wavelength

• An optical instrument

• Theories

• Cultural movement from 14th to 17th

• Telescope

• Well-substantiated explanations

• Renaissance

• distance between successive wave crests

• Motion

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• Acting primarily in one's own benefit

• State of Nature 

• concept describing human existence

• Social Contract

• An agreement among individuals to form a society

• Retrograde

• The greatest happiness for the greatest number

• Self-Interested 

• Moving backward in time

• Utilitarianism

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• Sun-Centered Model

• Polymath

• Light Refraction

• Black Hole

• Region of Space with Gravitational Pull

• Heliocentrism

• Renaissance Thinker

• Orbit

• Path of a Planet

• Prism

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• Repetitive occurrence

• Spectral Analysis

• Validity of claims 

• Reflection

• Returning light

• Authenticity 

• Analysis of light spectra

• Periodic 

• Dissemination of research

• Publication

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• Force that attracts objects towards each other

• Orbit

• Response to a stimulus

• Telescope

• Path of a celestial body

• Tyrant 

• Device for viewing distant objects

• Gravity

• Ruler with absolute power

• Reaction

Tags

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• Period of cultural revival

• Inertia 

• Force attracting objects

• Renaissance

• Change in position

• Publication

• Release of a written work

• Gravity

• Resistance to change in motion

• Motion

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• Rough and aggressive behavior

• Reflection

• Thoughtful consideration of past experiences

• Discrepancies

• Subject to debate and differing opinions

• Controversial

• Differences that may lead to conflict

• Innovation

• New ideas that drive progress

• Brutish 

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• Studies celestial objects

• Astronomer

• Relating to the sky or space

• Astrophysics 

• Mathematics of change

• Canon

• Branch of physics dealing with the universe

• Celestial

• A collection of works

• Calculus