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World History Vocab

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Geocentric Theory   show
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show The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.  
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Ptolemy   show
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show This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical, the planets do not orbit at a constant speed, and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun.  
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Copernicus   show
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Scientific Revolution   show
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Aristotle   show
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show He was the first person to use a telescope to observe objects in space. He discovered that planets and moons are physical bodies because of his studies of the night skies.  
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show A unit of measure that equals the force required to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass at 1 meter per second per second.  
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Law of Universal Gravitation   show
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Vesalius   show
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show A temperature scale with the freezing point of water 32 degrees and the boiling point of 212 degrees  
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Bacon   show
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Descartes   show
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show A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.  
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Jansen   show
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