REVOLUTION & ENLIGHTENMENT
People & Discoveries – Activity
Directions:
Andreas Vesalius
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Margaret Cavendish
Maria Winkelmann
Nicolaus Copernicus
ROUND 1
1.) Discourse on Method
2.) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia)
3.) Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy
4.) On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies)
5.) The Starry Messenger
ROUND 2
1.) Developed the Universal Law of Gravitation.
2.) English philosopher who developed the systematic approach to scientific problems known as the Scientific Method.
3.) French philosopher who stated, “I think, therefore I am” and developed ideas on modern rationalism.
4.) Proposed the Heliocentric theory – the idea that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe.
5.) Natural philosopher who was critical of the popular idea that humans were the masters of natural occurrences.
ROUND 3
1.) English scientist who defined the laws of universal motion that govern the planetary bodies and objects on earth.
2.) German astronomer who became the first female to discover a comet.
3.) Italian mathematician who developed the first modern telescope and used it to study the “heavenly bodies.”
4.) Medical scientist who accurately described the general structure of the human body and individual organs.
5.) Showed that the planets’ orbit around the sun was not circular, but elliptical.
ROUND 4
1.) Developed the “world-machine” concept that dominated the modern worldview until the 20 th century.
2.) Discovered a mountainous terrain on Earth’s moon and four moons revolving around Jupiter.
3.) Discovered imperfections on the sun – known as “sunspots.”
4.) German mathematician who used astronomical data to develop ideas on planetary motion.
Renee Descartes
William Harvey
ROUND 5
1.) Medical scientist who first proved that the heart was the beginning point for circulation of blood.
2.) Proposed the idea that the earth spins on its own axis.
3.) Ran into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church for proposing ideas contradictory to the church’s doctrine.
REVOLUTION & ENLIGHTENMENT
People & Discoveries – Activity
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Andreas VESALIUS
Francis BACON
Galileo GALILEI
Isaac NEWTON
Johannes KEPLER
Round 1
Round 1
Round 1
Round 1
Round 1
Round 2
Round 2
Round 2
Round 2
Round 2
Round 3
Round 3
Round 3
Round 3
Round 3
Round 4
Round 4
Round 4
Round 4
Round 4
Round 5
Round 5
Round 5
Round 5
Round 5
Margaret CAVENDISH
Maria WINKELMANN
Nicolaus COPERNICUS
Renee DESCARTES
William HARVEY
Round 1
Round 1
Round 1
Round 1
Round 1
Round 2
Round 2
Round 2
Round 2
Round 2
Round 3
Round 3
Round 3
Round 3
Round 3
Round 4
Round 4
Round 4
Round 4
Round 4
Round 5
Round 5
Round 5
Round 5
Round 5