7th Grade Chapter 9 Vocab Review

a scientist who stated that the body is mostly chemicals and should be treated with chemicals

Eratosthenes was an early French astronomer and geographer who determined the distance around the earth

an English king who like his father James I asserted the divine right of kings and struggled to defeat Parliament

The laws of gravity and motion state that gravity keeps the planet in their orbit

is the Chemistry law about gases

a French king who was one of the most successful monarchs of his time

a Mathematician who wrote Elements and was also known as the Father of Geometry

developed his work on human anatomy by dissecting human bodies

The English Civil War was the war in which Oliver Cromwell led Parliament's army against the king's forces and defeated

was the Englishman who developed a vaccine for smallpox

Smallpox is a weakened form of a disease exposed to a person on purpose to prevent getting a serious form of the disease

made signification contributions in the area of physics, geography, and optics

the Father of Modern Chemistry

The _________ set limits on royal power, granted the English people basic civil liberties, along with other things

Smallpox is a disease that killed or left people terribly scarred.

spent his life contributing to the fields of astronomy; discovered the planet now known as Uranus; built telescopes

Empiricism is the belief that the path to truth is through human reason

the belief that man can find knowledge only through experience

led Parliament's army against the king's forces and defeated them

used the newly invented telescope for his observations.

discovered concepts that have become known as the laws of gravity and motion

a Greek physician who is known as the Father of Medicine

The ____ was the change of power in England in 1688 without resorting to war.

reigned in Russia and increased the power of the Russian monarch

was an early Greek astronomer that recorded the position and motion of hundreds of stars.

was a Dominican friar who played an important role in introducing Muslim documents to medieval universities

Robert Boyle was a Christian who wrote The Skeptic Chymist and contributed to chemistry with his work on gases