Copernicus Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

heliocentric theory places the sun at the CENTER of the solar system, states that all other bodies in the solar system orbit it. This was in direct contradiction to Ptolemy's geocentric theory, that stated the earth was the center of the universe Nicolaus Copernicus widely credited as the father of the heliocentric theory (sun is the center of the universe) he was not the first to propose the concept but his mathematical model was the first that correctly predicted the movement of the pl...

__ argued that the Earth cannot be flat b/c a traveller moving south sees stars that were previously hidden below the previous horizon - ️️Aristotle __ argued that the earth must be spherical, b/c the shadow that the earth casts on the moon during a lunar eclipse is always part of a circle, no matter the moon's position - ️️Aristotle __ determined that gravity is responsible for keeping the Moon in it's orbit around the earth - ️️Newton __ discovered that the orbits of planets a...

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Colombian exchange - ️️trade between Europe and the Americas Phillip II - ️️Spanish ruler who lost the Netherlands Johannes Kepler - ️️used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right heliocentric - ️️sun-centered theory scientific method - ️️reaching conclusions through observing, measuring, and testing Amerigo Vespucci - ️️believed that Columbus did not land in Asia Francis Bacon - ️️believed no assumption could be trusted without repeat experimentat...

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Colombian exchange - trade between Europe and the Americas Phillip II - Spanish ruler who lost the Netherlands Johannes Kepler - used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right heliocentric - sun-centered theory scientific method - reaching conclusions through observing, measuring, and testing Amerigo Vespucci - believed that Columbus did not land in Asia Francis Bacon - believed no assumption could be trusted without repeat experimentation