13.5 The Scientific Revolution

Which medical development was French physician Ambroise Paré NOT responsible for?

• describing the circulation of the blood

• introducing the use of artificial limbs

• developing new surgical techniques

• developing a new and more effective ointment for preventing infection

Who developed calculus?

• René Descartes

• Isaac Newton

• Tycho Brahe

• Nicolaus Copernicus

In the scientific method, scientists propose a logical __________, which they then test.

• hypothesis

• calculus

• contradict

• heliocentric

Which Danish astronomer provided data that would support Copernicus's theories?

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galilei

Alchemists believed that any substance could be transformed into any other substance. How is this the basis of modern day chemistry?

• Chemists were preoccupied with turning ordinary metals into gold

• Both believed that nature could be measured and described mathematically.

• Both had limited knowledge of human anatomy.

• Chemists built on the idea that all things were made up of the same basic building blocks

What does the term heliocentric refer to?

• a branch of mathematics

• a person who is an expert in wisdom or knowledge

• to go against

• being sun-centered

When tried before the Inquisition, __________ was forced to say that the earth stands motionless at the center of the universe.

• René Descartes

• Francis Bacon

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

When scientists use the scientific method, they base their findings on

• predestination and data analysis.

• data collection and intuition.

• observation and experimentation.

• hypotheses and second-hand information.

René Descartes believed that people could discover basic truths through

• observation.

• experimentation.

• reasoning.

• traditional sources of knowledge.

The Scientific Method had its beginnings in work by which writer?

• Michelangelo

• Plato

• Kepler

• Shakepeare