Johannes kepler - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Nicolaus Copernicus - Wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies" Isaac Newton - Wrote the Principia Leeuwenhoek - father of microbiology Johannes Kepler - demonstrated eliptical orbits among the planets Jenner - Smallpox vaccine Galileo Galilei - used a telescope to confirm heliocentricism Louis Pasteur - developed the germ theory of disease Francis Bacon - developed the scientific method Descartes - I think therefore I am Spinoza - Wrote Ethics John Locke - wrote Two Treatise...

Saylor Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers Colombian exchange - CORRECT ANSWER- trade between Europe and the Americas Phillip II - CORRECT ANSWER- Spanish ruler who lost the Netherlands Johannes Kepler - CORRECT ANSWER- used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right heliocentric - CORRECT ANSWER- sun-centered theory

satellite natural or artificial object in space that orbits the Earth orbit the path a satellite takes around a celestial body apogee the highest point of an orbit perigee the lowest point of an orbit Sputnik the first artificial satellite COMSTAT communications satellites INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization NAVSTAR navigation satellitesLANDSAT satellites that locate natural resources and monitor conditions on the Earth's surface GOES Geostationary Operatio...

satellite natural or artificial object in space that orbits the Earth orbit the path a satellite takes around a celestial body apogee the highest point of an orbit perigee the lowest point of an orbit Sputnik the first artificial satellite COMSTAT communications satellites INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization NAVSTAR navigation satellitesLANDSAT satellites that locate natural resources and monitor conditions on the Earth's surface GOES Geostationary Operatio...

Colombian exchange - trade between Europe and the Americas Phillip II - Spanish ruler who lost the Netherlands Johannes Kepler - used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right heliocentric - sun-centered theory scientific method - reaching conclusions through observing, measuring, and testing Amerigo Vespucci - believed that Columbus did not land in Asia Francis Bacon - believed no assumption could be trusted without repeat experimentation

Who was the British naval officer that claimed the eastern coast of Australia for Great Britain? - ️️Captain James Cook was an English noblewoman who wrote scientific and philosophical treatises. - ️️Margaret Cavendish What was the name of the French official who played the most important role in centralizing the authority of the French Monarch? - ️️Louis XIV According to the divine right theory, rulers received their power from - ️️God Royal absolutism first emerged in wh...

Intro to Astronomy Final Exam Study Guide Test. Why were ancient peoples unable to detect stellar parallax? • A. They did detect it, but they rejected the observations • B. They could not see distant stars • C. They did not have the ability to measure small enough angles • D. They did not observe for long enough periods of time • E. They looked in the wrong direction - CORRECT ANSWER C How did Eratosthenes estimate the size of the Earth? • A. He sent fleets of ships aroun...

Colombian exchange - ️️trade between Europe and the Americas Phillip II - ️️Spanish ruler who lost the Netherlands Johannes Kepler - ️️used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right heliocentric - ️️sun-centered theory scientific method - ️️reaching conclusions through observing, measuring, and testing Amerigo Vespucci - ️️believed that Columbus did not land in Asia Francis Bacon - ️️believed no assumption could be trusted without repeat experimentat...

satellite - ️️natural or artificial object in space that orbits the Earth orbit - ️️the path a satellite takes around a celestial body apogee - ️️the highest point of an orbit perigee - ️️the lowest point of an orbit Sputnik - ️️the first artificial satellite COMSTAT - ️️communications satellites INTELSAT - ️️International Telecommunications Satellite Organization NAVSTAR - ️️navigation satellites LANDSAT - ️️satellites that locate natu...

satellite - ️️natural or artificial object in space that orbits the Earth orbit - ️️the path a satellite takes around a celestial body apogee - ️️the highest point of an orbit perigee - ️️the lowest point of an orbit Sputnik - ️️the first artificial satellite COMSTAT - ️️communications satellites INTELSAT - ️️International Telecommunications Satellite Organization NAVSTAR - ️️navigation satellites LANDSAT - ️️satellites that locate natu...