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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
et al.
Matching Exercises
Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution

B. The pioneering thinkers of the Scientific Revolution included Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton. Below is a list of these thinkers' achievements. Using the menus, match each of these with the appropriate name. HINT: some names may have more than one matching achievement.

1. three laws of planetary motion


2. heliocentric model of the universe


3. determined nature of light through experimentation


4. observed comet of 1577


5. observed moons of Jupiter


6. observed uniform acceleration of falling bodies


7. laws of inertia, acceleration, and action/reaction


8. observed new star in 1572


9. established order and uniformity of nature


10. theorized "universal gravitation"






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