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Scientific revolution: A new way of thinking about the natural world and a period of the great advances in sciences.
Nicolaus Copernicus: A Polish cleric and astronomer who became interested in an old greek idea that the sun stood at the center of the universe.
Heliocentric theory: A theory that said the stars, the Earth, and other planets revolved around the sun.
Johannes Kepler: He was a brilliant mathematician and continued Tycho Brahe data about the planetary motion.
Galileo Galilei: A 17 year old Italian who had discovered the law of pendulum.
Scientific method: A logical procedure for gathering and testing theories and ideas.
Francis Bacon: He was an English politician and writer. He was passionate about science.
Rene Descartes: He developed analytical geometry which brought algebra and geometry.
Isaac Newton: He was an English scientist who discovered that the same force ruled the motions of the planets, the pendulum, and all matter on earth and in space.
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People started to question theories.
People questioned the Church and Bible.
Many were curious about nature.
With the invention of the scientific method, scientists became making tools for making observations
Scholars challenged old theories with their new ideas and they tested them.
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