Scientifc Revolution

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars (7)
  2. 8. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland (8)
  3. 9. English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light (5)
  4. 10. 3rd President of the United States (9)
  5. 13. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial (11)
  6. 14. United States writer (5)

Down

  1. 1. English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood (6)
  2. 2. French philosopher and mathematician (9)
  3. 3. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (8)
  4. 4. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked (5)
  5. 6. Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (10)
  6. 7. English mathematician and physicist (6)
  7. 11. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (5)
  8. 12. Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of ___ (4)