Chapter 8 Review

Copernicus argued that the planets revolved around the ...

• Sun

• Milky Way

• Earth

• Stars

__________was a mathematician who showed that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Newton

The Church attacked Galileo because he defended the system that said the _____ revolved around the sun.

• Earth

• Planets

• Stars

• Galaxy

Copernicus’s, Kepler’s, and Galileo’s theories were important because they all contributed to proving that the universe was centered around

• the sun

• the earth

• mars

• Mrs. E. Swallie

How did new technology such as the telescope and new theories lay the foundation of the Scientific Revolution?

• make scientific laws.

• create more new inventions and theories

• Ordinary people used them in their everyday life

• Philosophers used them to think about ancient Greek ideas.

Which of the following made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation?

• natural philosophers

• Greek thinkers

• the telescope and the microscope

• the printing press

. Many intellectuals of the 1500s and 1600s did not take Margaret Cavendish’s work seriously because

• she did not believe in rationalism

• her work was not logical

• her work was not signed

• she was a woman

Why did Descartes decide to set aside everything that he had learned and begin again?

• He doubted everything he had learned.

• Everything he had learned was wrong.

• Science was based on new information only.

• There were no science books.

Francis Bacon believed that scientists should

• use reasoning

• develop their own scientific methods

• study philosophy

• rely on ancient authorities

The goal of the Enlightenment thinkers was to use the scientific method to keep society the same.

• TRUE

• FALSE