Scientific Revolution Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US History (General) has 30 clues. Answers range from 4 to 20 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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What states that one must observe phenomena before attempting to explain them?
What is the branch of physics that deals with the actions of forces on bodies and with motion?
What system is the standard explanation of the earth and the heavens combined?
What is known as the outlook, in which people assumed that the earth was the center of the universe?
What theory states that the earth and other planets in our solar system rotate around the sun?
What is the belief that a supreme being created the world, but does not interfere with its day to day operation?
What is the belief that neither empirical or rational knowledge can be known with certainty?
What is the system of theological and philosophical teaching that was predominant in the middle ages?
Who combined the Copernican system and the Ptolemaic system to get a more accurate model of planetary rotation?
Who argued that the planets had to move in elliptical orbits and revolve around the sun to explain their motion?
Who discovered the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of gravity?
Who rejected the theory of an earth centered universe?
Who built a telescope, and revolutionized our perception of the heavens?
Who was a gifted mathematician, who also invented analytic geometry?
Who was the father of empiricism, and of experimentation in science?
Who was the first to create a comprehensive system of cosmology and mechanics?
What university did Galileo leave in 1610 for Florence?
In 1687 Newton published, “The Mathematical Principle of Natural ________”?
What book did Descartes publish in 1637?
What book did Descartes publish in 1641 that emphasized deduction, rational speculation, and internal reflection by the mind?
During the 1600s Galileo Galilei published the Starry Messenger and Letters on________?
In 1609 Kepler published The New _________ and Galileo created the telescope?
Where is the University that Copernicus went to located at?
In 1543, Copernicus published “On the Revolution of the ________ Spheres.
What happened during the sixteenth and seventeenth century?
What concept did Galileo popularize and articulate of a universe subject to mathematical laws?
What is it called when a planet moves uniformly about a small circle?
What is it called when the center of an epicycle moves uniformly about a larger circle?
Who was Tycho Brahe’s assistant
What did Copernicus work contain that was the physical cosmology of Aristotle?

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