| A | B |
|---|
| Nicolaus Copernicus | thought that theplanets revolve around the Sun |
| Johannes Kepler | mathematically proved the planets revolve around the Sun |
| Galileo Galilei | discovered the law of inertia |
| Frances Bacon | contributed to scientific method; Englishman |
| René Descartes | contributed to scientific method; "I think, therefore I am." |
| Andreas Vesalius | On the Structure of the Human Body (1543) |
| William Harvey | blood is pumped by the heart and circulates throughout the body |
| Robert Hooke | cells in vegetable tissue |
| Robert Boyle | chemistry |
| alchemist | sought to turn metals into gold,silver; earth, fire, water, air |
| Joseph Priestly | oxygen, carbon-dioxide |
| Marie and Antoine Lavoisier | oxygen, combustion |
| null hypothesis | US justice system |
| alternative hypothesis | more difficult to proove |
| scientific method | logic step-by-step methodology to descovering scientific "truths" |
| Isaac Newton | gravity |
| hypothesis | educated guess |
| ellipses | oval path, not circular |
| calculus | system of mathematics that calculates changing forces or quantities |
