Scientific revolution vocabulary

Acceleration

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• The basis for a system, idea, or theory

• Conquest 

• The act of acquiring control

• Celestial

• A scientist who studies celestial bodies

• Foundation

• Relating to the sky or outer space,

• Astronomer

• An term referring to the sky or heavens

• Firmament

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• Cultural movement from 14th to 17th

• Wavelength

• An optical instrument

• Theories

• distance between successive wave crests

• Motion

• Well-substantiated explanations

• Renaissance

• The process of changing position

• Telescope

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• Moving backward in time

• State of Nature 

• An agreement among individuals to form a society

• Social Contract

• concept describing human existence

• Self-Interested 

• Acting primarily in one's own benefit

• Utilitarianism

• The greatest happiness for the greatest number

• Retrograde

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• Region of Space with Gravitational Pull

• Heliocentrism

• Light Refraction

• Prism

• Path of a Planet

• Orbit

• Renaissance Thinker

• Polymath

• Sun-Centered Model

• Black Hole

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• Repetitive occurrence

• Spectral Analysis

• Analysis of light spectra

• Periodic 

• Validity of claims 

• Publication

• Dissemination of research

• Reflection

• Returning light

• Authenticity 

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• Response to a stimulus

• Orbit

• Ruler with absolute power

• Reaction

• Device for viewing distant objects

• Tyrant 

• Force that attracts objects towards each other

• Gravity

• Path of a celestial body

• Telescope

Tags

SSWH13

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• Release of a written work

• Gravity

• Period of cultural revival

• Renaissance

• Resistance to change in motion

• Motion

• Force attracting objects

• Publication

• Change in position

• Inertia 

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• Differences that may lead to conflict

• Controversial

• Thoughtful consideration of past experiences

• Discrepancies

• Rough and aggressive behavior

• Innovation

• Subject to debate and differing opinions

• Reflection

• New ideas that drive progress

• Brutish 

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• Branch of physics dealing with the universe

• Canon

• Relating to the sky or space

• Calculus

• Mathematics of change

• Celestial

• Studies celestial objects

• Astronomer

• A collection of works

• Astrophysics