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Ptolemy |
A Egyptian writer also was a astronomer,geographer.And believed that the earth was the center. |
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Copernicus |
A renaissance mathematician and a astronomer who made a model of the world and putting the sun in the middle. |
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Kepler |
A German mathematician and another astronomer. |
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Galileo |
Galileo was Italian astronomer,physicist,engineer. |
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Francis Bacon |
He was a English philosopher,scientist,writer. |
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Rene Descartes |
French enlightenment philosopher that came up with Geometry and deductive reasoning. |
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sir Isaac newton |
law of gravity laws of motion laws of planetary movement prism. |
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revolution |
A great amount of change in a short period of time. |
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geocentric |
the earth is at the center of the universe. |
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astronomer |
a scientist that studies the planets and the universe. |
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heliocentric |
the sun is the center of the universe . |
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excommunication |
thrown out of the church. |
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ellipses |
oval circles instead of concentric |
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heresy |
it is when you are charged with saying or doing against the church |
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scientific method |
a method that is used to proved a theory. |
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hypothesis |
Educated guess. |
