Module 22 Test: The Scientific Revolution

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A solution that the scientist proposes to solve a problem

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hypothesis

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French philosopher who believed that nothing should be accepted as true if it could not be proven to be true

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René Descartes

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Step by step process for performing experiments and other scientific research

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scientific method

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Invention that helped doctors see things too small for the human eye alone

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microscope

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Italian scientist put on trial by the Roman Catholic Church for publicly saying that the planets orbit the sun and not the earth

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Galileo Galilei

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Time when people began to question the accepted wisdom about medicine and the human body

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Scientific Revolution

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Why was Galileo put on trial?

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for saying that the planets orbit the sun

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What are three democratic ideas new to Europe?

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personal freedom, individual rights, and equality.

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English philosopher who argued for systematic scientific research

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Francis Bacon

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The series of events that led to the birth of modern science is called the

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Scientific Revolution.