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WORLD HISTORY
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-Galileo used the telescope and challenged the teachings of the day.-Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity.-Copernicus determined that the Sun is the center of the universe.Which period is most directly associated with these events?
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Early Middle Ages
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Scientific Revolution
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Protestant Reformation
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Industrial Revolution
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, the heliocentric theory of the solar system.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was a development of Galileo’s ideas that led Isaac Newton to lay down his famous three laws of motion. These, plus Newton’s own ‘law of gravity’, would provide the ultimate explanation for Kepler’s elliptical orbits and really tell us what was going on.
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