AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
TOP TEN LIST OF THE NEW THINKERS
For each of the influential thinkers listed below, develop a TOP TEN list of their most important accomplishments
and contributions to the intellectual development of European culture.
1. Develop a list of ten or more pieces of information regarding the person’s accomplishments. These facts
should include new ideas, inventions, publications, the influence the person may have had on others, and
the reaction by other people to this person’s work.
2. Evaluate your list of facts. Be sure to set criteria or have a rationale for ranking the facts. Place the
information in order from most important to least important.
3. Create a TOP TEN list (a la David Letterman)… “The TOP TEN reasons why ….” Be creative and clever, but
make sure your information is accurate. Be sure to record the criteria you used to make your decisions.
4. Present your list to the rest of the class.
NEW THINKERS
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Andreas Vesalius
Gottfried Leibniz
Blaise Pascal
Margaret Cavendish
Grading Rubric:
A. Content:
a. Did you present accurate, significant events related to your person?
B. Rationale:
a. Did you devise a logical, rational method of evaluation of events?
C. Presentation:
a. Did you present the information in a CONCISE, yet informative
manner?
TOTAL
40 points
15 points
20 points
75 points
Name ________________________________
Name _______________________________
TOP TEN THINKERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
A. Content:
a. Did you present accurate, significant events related to your person?
_______/40 points
B. Rationale:
a. Did you devise a logical, rational method of evaluation of events?
_______/15 points
C. Presentation:
a. Did you present the information in a CONCISE, yet informative
manner?
_______/ 20 points
TOTAL
Name ________________________________
_______/75 points
Name _______________________________
TOP TEN THINKERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
A. Content:
a. Did you present accurate, significant events related to your person?
_______/40 points
B. Rationale:
a. Did you devise a logical, rational method of evaluation of events?
_______/15 points
C. Presentation:
a. Did you present the information in a CONCISE, yet informative
manner?
_______/ 20 points
TOTAL
_______/75 points