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You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
- European Renaissance
- trivium
- quadrivium
- Johannes Gutenberg
- inductive reasoning
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Ptolemaic astronomy
- Aristotelian physics
- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
- Copernican revolution
- Sir Isaac Newton
- umbra
- penumbra
- penumbral eclipse
- partial eclipse
- total eclipse
- line of nodes
- lunar sidereal month
- lunar synodic month
- lunar draconic month
- synodic month
- inclination
- Occam’s razor
- Gregorian calendar
- Giordano Bruno
- Congregation of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Roman Inquisition)
- Tycho Brahe
- De nova stella
- Johannes Kepler
- Copernican
- William Gilbert
- astronomical unit
- ellipse
- Astronomia Nova
- Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the World)
- Kepler’s laws
- law of ellipses
- law of equal areas
- harmonic law
- focus
- principal focus
- semimajor axis
- semiminor axis
- eccentricity
- perihelion
- aphelion
- Galileo Galilei
- Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger)
- acceleration due to gravity
- inertia
- Galilean relativity
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican