The Scientific Revolution

What term best describes the process in the image?

• Laws of Motion

• Laws of Gravity

• Geocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

The geocentric theory was taken from the theories of what 4th Century Greeks?

• Justinian I

• Socrates

• Plato & Aristotle

• Henry VIII

Johann Gutenberg invented...

• calligraphy

• the astrolabe

• the printing press

• woodblock printing

Who explained the law of universal gravitation in his work Principia? 

• Isaac Newton.
• Galileo
• Copernicus
• John Locke

This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical, the planets do not orbit at a constant speed, and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun.

• Newton

• Maria Curie

• Kepler

• Copernicus

Sir Isaac Newton thought of and wrote his three...

• Laws of Motion

• Theories of Light

• Theses of Motion

• Systems of Measurement

Founded the earth centered theory, known as the Geocentric Theory:

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Newton

• Kepler

The first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope was

• Newton.
• Copernicus.
• Galileo.
• Kepler.

Sir Francis Bacon

• Rationalism

• Helocnetic Theory

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Method

Which theory originally stated that the sun was the center of the solar system?

• Geocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

• Eurocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory (with planets orbiting in ellipses)