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What is the Scientific Method?
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A series of logical steps formulated by Francis Bacon and used in scientific research that stressed observation and experimentation
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Why would the Scientific Method differ greatly than the methods that came earlier?
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Because it included testing and then coming to a conclusion
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How did Copernicus see the world?
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He said that the sun, not the earth is the center of the universe; he also did research on how the earth spins on its axis everyday
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Who built on the Copernican theory?
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Galileo, but later was considered a heretic; Kepler and also Kepler
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Whose theories did Copernicus challenge?
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Ptolemy's theory that said that the Earth was the center of the universe
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What did Kepler find out?
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That the orbit of the planets were oval and not circular
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