Scientific Revolution Vocab

"natural philosophers" Ð'- medieval scientists that used logical analysis and systematic observations.

Alchemy Ð'- the investigation of nature through philosophical and spiritual discipline. It combined elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art all as parts of one greater force.

Hermeticism Magic Ð'- philosophical and religious. People were living embodiment of divinity and could spark their divinity using magic or mathematical magic.

Cosmology Ð'- study of the universe and what humans place is in it.

Ptolemy Ð'- the greatest astronomer of antiquity, who lived in the second century A.D.

Aristotle Ð'- believed the circular movement of the universe was perfect to describe the perfectness of heavenly bodies. Everything revolved around the Earth.

The Empyrean Heaven Ð'- the tenth sphere in Ptolemaic universe where God and saved souls lived.

Geocentric universe Ð'- the belief of the universe being made of concentric circles that were fixed to a motionless earth at its center.

Epicycles Ð'- the concentric spheres inside the spheres around that revolved around the earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus Ð'- (1473-1543) mathematician and astronomer studied in Krakow in his home, Poland. He made a heliocentric theory that said the sun was the center of the universe. The stars that were fixed is explained to the daily rotation of the earth on its axis.

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Ð'- book by Copernicus that was published on his death bed but written 20 years before because he was afraid of