mrs. Will's 1st and 3rd period
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- man who challenged the Ptolemaic view by claiming earth and other planets revolved around the sun
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- means of investigation based on the combination of logical deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning
- scientific method
- Portuguese ships equipped with lateen sails that were smaller and more maneuverable
- caravels
- Flemish physician and professor of medicine, who conducted his own dissections of bodies for his classes
- Andreas Vesalius
- sponsored by Spain/discovered the New World
- Christopher Columbus
- used a telescope to make more accurate observations to prove the heliocentric model correct
- Galileo Galilei
- large, triangular sails that could be trimmed or adjusted to take advantage of the wind, which gave ships greater maneuverability
- lateen sail
- Copernicus's sun-centered model of the universe
- heliocentric
- believed in questioning all ideas before accepting them as knowledge
- Rene Descartes
- a magnetized needle that pointed north-south
- compass
- used the scientific method to discover a unified set of laws that transformed the European worldview by describing the universe as a well-ordered system
- Sir Issac Newton
- device for observing far away objects
- telescope
- brilliant mathematician who was able to prove Copernicus's heliocentric theory
- Johannes Keppler
- rejected deductive reasoning and believed that only experimental data could be the foundation of true knowledge
- Sir Francis Bacon
- invention that permitted people to see tiny forms of life that had never been seen before
- microscope
- English doctor who discovered blood through veins and arteries and described the a beating heart as being like a mehanical pump
- William Harvey
- Portuguese explorer who set sail for and made it to the coast of India
- Vasco da Gama
- circumnavigated the world
- Magellan
- change in scientific thought in the early 1500's that questioned and destroyed the basic explainations past authorities had provided about how the world worked
- Scientific Revolution
- Portuguese captain who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and founnd a way into the Indian Ocean
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Aristotle's earth-centered model of the universe
- geocentric
- made advances in ship-building, cartography, and navigation; also inspired Portuguese explorers to make voyages into the Atlantic and and to the coast of Africa
- Prince Henry