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ZCHYPOTHESISEAJ

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EDOONNXIFINAPTI

WNIUDTELLIPSERE

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SAICUSSOEALOMHI

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GTDOOFTOOBORBIT

QEYPNHIPPYYPNDO

IRHELIOCENTRICM

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HeliocentricHELIOCENTRIC
OrbitORBIT
EllipseELLIPSE
PlanetPLANET
AstronomyASTRONOMY
TelescopeTELESCOPE
MicroscopeMICROSCOPE
BarometerBAROMETER
PendulumPENDULUM
AnatomyANATOMY
ExperimentEXPERIMENT
HypothesisHYPOTHESIS
ObservationOBSERVATION
MotionMOTION
GravityGRAVITY

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ZCHYPOTHESISEAJ

RROAEITMWNWOXTD

EDOONNXIFINAPTI

WNIUDTELLIPSERE

SQRMUAOOYEHTREH

TBRILABUTCPRIVQ

SAICUSSOEALOMHI

LRZRMGEWLCANESF

COOOOCRSEINONIA

GMCSTXVNSMEMTYN

SESCIPAICQTYLWA

GTDOOFTOOBORBIT

QEYPNHIPPYYPNDO

IRHELIOCENTRICM

AGANOYNDGRAVITY

HELIOCENTRIC, ORBIT, ELLIPSE, PLANET, ASTRONOMY, TELESCOPE, MICROSCOPE, BAROMETER, PENDULUM, ANATOMY, EXPERIMENT, HYPOTHESIS, OBSERVATION, MOTION, GRAVITY

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Sun, Planets and Orbits 22

Aphelion The point where a planet is farthest from the Sun and moves slowest.
Astronomy The study of the sky. Tycho Brahe's accurate observations helped turn it into the first modern science.
Comets Tycho Brahe showed that they are not happenings in the Earth's air, as had been thought.
Craters Hollows on the Moon's surface, which Galileo observed.
Earth Our own planet, which Ptolemy's model set at the center of the universe.
Ellipse A flattened circle. Kepler's first law says each planet's path is one, with the Sun at one focus.
Focus One of the two points that define an ellipse. The Sun's center sits at one.
Geocentric Having the Earth at the center: Ptolemy's model, widely accepted since ancient times.
Heliocentric Having the Sun at the center: the model of the planets that Copernicus published in 1543.
Jupiter The planet whose four largest moons were discovered in 1610.
Mars The planet whose puzzling path Tycho Brahe set Kepler to work out.
Milky Way The band of sky in which Galileo saw hundreds of stars not visible to the naked eye.
Moons Galileo's treatise of 1610 reported four of them that appeared to circle Jupiter.

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Observatory A building for watching the sky. Uraniborg was the first custom-built one in modern Europe.
Orbit The path of a planet around the Sun. Copernicus drew it as a circle and Kepler as an ellipse.
Perihelion The point of a planet's nearest approach to the Sun, where it moves fastest.
Planet A body that travels around the Sun. Mercury, the innermost, takes only 88 days.
Saturn The planet whose rings Huygens studied.
Sun The star that Copernicus placed near the center of the universe, motionless.
Supernova What a "new star" is now called. The one of 1572 astonished Tycho Brahe.
Titan Saturn's largest moon, discovered by Huygens.
Universe Everything that exists. In 1543 Copernicus offered a new model of it.

Telescopes and Microscopes 19

Air Pump A machine that sucks the air out of a vessel. Hooke greatly improved its construction in 1658.
Barometer The instrument for measuring air pressure. Torricelli invented the mercury kind in 1643.
Calculator A machine for arithmetic. Pascal began work on one in 1642.
Cell The biological term for a tiny unit of life, which began with Hooke's book of 1665.
Clock Huygens invented the pendulum kind in 1656, the most precise timekeeper until the 1930s.
Gas Air is one. Boyle's law tells how its pressure and volume are linked.
Insects Hooke's book was the first to show pictures of them as seen through microscopes.
Instruments Tools for measuring and observing. Tycho Brahe invented many precise ones.
Lens Curved glass for a telescope or microscope. Leeuwenhoek took an interest in making them.
Logarithms A mathematical tool that John Napier introduced. Tables of them made hand calculation much quicker.
Mercury The liquid metal in Torricelli's barometer, and the name of the innermost planet.
Microbes Tiny living things. Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and experiment with them.
Microscope A tool for seeing very small things. Hooke designed the compound one he used in 1665.
Pendulum A weight that swings. Galileo described its properties.
Pressure The push of a gas on its container. Boyle's law relates it to volume.
Prism Newton built his theory of color on the way one splits white light.
Spyglass Another name for the kind of telescope Galileo first built for looking at things on Earth.
Telescope A tool for seeing far. The earliest record of one is a patent filed in the Netherlands in 1608.
Volume The space a gas takes up. Under Boyle's law it shrinks as pressure rises, if the temperature holds steady.

Anatomy and Chemistry 10

Alchemy An older art of working with substances. Boyle, Newton and Tycho Brahe all practiced it.
Anatomy The study of how the body is built. Vesalius is often called the founder of the modern human kind.
Blood Harvey described, completely and in detail, how the heart pumps it around the body.
Chemistry The science of substances. Boyle is regarded as one of the founders of its modern form.
Circulation The round trip of blood through the body. Harvey published his treatise on it in 1628.
Dissection The opening of a body for study. Vesalius did it himself as he lectured.
Heart The pump at the center of Harvey's work, which sends blood to the brain and the rest of the body.
Microbiology The study of living things too small to see. Leeuwenhoek is known as its father.
Organs Parts of the body such as the heart. Vesalius's books examine them with care.
Physician A doctor of medicine. Harvey and Vesalius were both one.

Experiment and Reason 24

Algebra The mathematics of symbols and equations, which Descartes connected with geometry.
Calculus The mathematics of change, formulated independently by Newton and Leibniz in the late 17th century.
Empiricism The view that knowledge rests on experience. Bacon has been called its father.
Experiment A test set up to learn how nature behaves. Systematic ones slowly became the accepted way to do research.
Force A push or a pull. Newton's theory explained the unknown one behind Kepler's third law.
Free Fall The dropping of a body under gravity alone, one of the things Galileo studied.
Geometry The mathematics of shape. Descartes connected it with algebra.
Gravity The pull between bodies. Newton's universal law of it explains the force behind Kepler's third law.
Hypothesis An idea put forward to be tested. Testing one is part of the scientific method.
Induction Reasoning from particular cases to a general rule, the kind Bacon's system relies on.
Inertia Why a moving body keeps moving. Galileo studied it, and Newton's first law of motion states it.
Latin The language in which the Principia and the Novum Organum were written.
Laws Rules that nature follows. Kepler gave three for the planets, and Newton gave those of motion.
Logic The study of correct reasoning. Bacon's work of 1620 sets out a new system of it.
Mathematics The science of number and shape, with which the new science was more closely joined.
Mechanics The science of forces and moving bodies. Newton's book of 1687 established the classical kind.
Method An orderly way of working. Galileo has been called the father of the scientific one.
Motion Change of place. Kepler gave three laws for that of the planets.
Observation Careful watching of events in nature. Bacon built knowledge on it and on inductive reasoning.
Probability The mathematics of chance, on which Pascal exchanged letters with Fermat.
Projectile A thrown or fired object. Galileo studied how such a thing moves.
Revolution A sweeping change. The word has been used of upheavals in science since at least the 18th century.
Theory An explanation that ties facts together. Kepler's laws were instrumental to Newton's of gravitation.
Velocity Speed in a given direction, one of the things Galileo studied.

Books, Cities and Societies 25

Academy A learned society. The French one of sciences was founded in 1666.
Astronomer A scientist of the sky. Tycho Brahe was the last major one before the telescope.
De Magnete The book of 1600 for which William Gilbert is remembered.
Delft The Dutch city where Leeuwenhoek was raised.
Denmark The home country of Tycho Brahe, who was forced to leave it in 1597.
Dialogue Galileo's book of 1632, which compares the Sun-centered and Earth-centered systems in four conversations.
Europe The continent of the Scientific Revolution, in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Fabrica A word from the Latin title of Vesalius's seven books on the human body, published in 1543.
Inventor A maker of new devices, as Huygens, Pascal and Boyle were.
Messenger Starry or Sidereal this: the English name of Galileo's short treatise of March 13, 1610.
Micrographia Hooke's book of January 1665, which became the first scientific best-seller.
New Science A name for the way of studying nature that emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Novum Organum Bacon's work of 1620 on a new system of logic.
Nuremberg The city where Copernicus's book was first printed, in 1543.
Padua The university city where Vesalius was a professor from 1537 to 1542.
Pisa The city where Galileo was born.
Polymath A person learned in many fields, as Kepler, Hooke and Newton were.
Prague The city where Kepler went to work as assistant to Tycho Brahe.
Principia Newton's book of 1687 for short. The period is said to culminate with it.
Printing The making of books on a press. The period is often dated from two books that came off the press in 1543.
Renaissance The age to which the astronomer Copernicus belonged.
Royal Society The London academy founded on November 28, 1660. Hooke's book was its first major publication.
Spheres Copernicus's title speaks of the revolutions of the heavenly ones.
Treatise A formal written work on one subject. Galileo's of 1610 was a short one.
Uraniborg Tycho Brahe's observatory, built about 1576 on the island of Ven.

How this list was compiled: Own work: the 100 words and every meaning were written for this page. Dates, names and discoveries were checked on October 16, 2026 against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Revolution and its articles on each scientist, book and instrument named; the orbit words were checked against NASA's page Orbits and Kepler's Laws (https://science.nasa.gov/resource/orbits-and-keplers-laws/). Licence: own work

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This Scientific Revolution word search hides 15 words: Telescope, Microscope, Heliocentric, Orbit, Planet, Ellipse, Gravity, Motion, Experiment, Hypothesis, Observation, Anatomy, Barometer, Pendulum and Astronomy. Five more lists cover the sky, the instruments, the body, the method and the books.

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Start from a list splits the 100 words: Sun, Planets and Orbits (22) has Geocentric, Perihelion and Supernova; Telescopes and Microscopes (19) has Air Pump and Logarithms; Anatomy and Chemistry (10); Experiment and Reason (24) has Induction and Inertia; Books, Cities and Societies (25) has Principia, Micrographia and Uraniborg.

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The meanings name the scientists: "The planet whose puzzling path Tycho Brahe set Kepler to work out." is Mars. No person is a puzzle word. Type Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler or Newton on the last line of the list and the grid takes each one in.

Easy Scientific Revolution keeps to 21 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Sun, Orbit, Lens, Prism and Laws.
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Questions and answers

What was the Scientific Revolution?

A change in how nature was studied in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The new science leaned more on mathematics and on gathering and interpreting evidence. It marks a boundary between ancient thought and modern science.

When was the Scientific Revolution?

It is frequently said to begin in 1543, when Copernicus's book on the heavens and Vesalius's on the human body were printed, and to culminate in 1687 with Newton's Principia. The supernova of 1572 has also been suggested as its start.

What does heliocentric mean?

Having the Sun at the center. Copernicus published a heliocentric model in 1543, against the older geocentric one that put the Earth there. Kepler later showed that the planets' orbits are ellipses, not circles.

What came after the Scientific Revolution?

The Enlightenment. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and in the Enlightenment that followed. For that unit, print the Enlightenment word search.

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Sun, Planets and Orbits 22

Sun, Planets and Orbits, continued

Telescopes and Microscopes 19

Anatomy and Chemistry 10

Experiment and Reason 24

Books, Cities and Societies 25

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