Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment Review

Copernicus did not want to publish his book on the heliocentric theory until after his death because he was afraid of persecution from the ______ Church

• Islamic
• Buddhist
• Catholic
• Protestant

Bacon, Galileo, & Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on experimentation & ________.

• observation

• faith

• superstition

• ancient theories

He pioneered the use of inductive reasoning for the use in the scientific method.

• Kepler

• Bacon

• John Locke

• Galileo

He used math to prove that the planetary orbits were elliptical.

• Copernicus

• Clovis I

• Kepler

• Wollstonecraft

He was accused of heresy and put under house arrest by the Catholic Church for supporting the heliocentric theory.

• Pope Leo X

• Charles Martel

• Galileo

• Isaac Newton

The idea that the sun is the center of the universe is the ____________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• solar
• sunny

The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst

The Catholic Church defended the views of _________, Ptolemy and other Greek philosophers because the Church felt their theories about the geocentric theory the traditional Biblical view.

• Copernicus

• Aristotle

• Julius Caesar

• King Richard the Lionheart

Galileo was tried for heresy by the Catholic Church because he argued

• That heaven did not exist

• That the Earth revolved around the sun

• Against the law of gravity

• That the sun revolved around the Earth

According to Copernicus, the sun

• Revolved around the earth

• Was the center of the solar system

• Was the biggest star in the universe

• Had many moons