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- scientific revolution
- new ideas about the universe. changed all areas of science.
- Navigation Acts
- acts that required colonists to do the bulk of their trading with England. also set duties on some trade products.
- Enlightenment
- the cahnge in the way people viewed human actions
- Benjamin Banneker
- a free african. predicted solar eclipse. made an almanac. lived in maryland
- David Rittenhouse
- American Philosopher Societys second president who designed mathematical and astronomical instruments
- scientific method
- requires that scientists carefully study natural events and they form their theories on their observations.
- Galileo
- leading firgures in the scientific revolution. discoverd that planets revolv around the sun
- Anne Bradstreet
- new england poet who wrote about love, faith, and family.
- Issac Newton
- explained how objects on EArth and in thte sky behaved. developed much of the scientific method.
- Phillis Wheatley
- used religious language in her poetry.