Chapter 17 - Revolution & Enlightenment

The Ptolemaic System said the ____ is in the center of the universe.

• Sun

• Earth

• Venus

• Louis XIV

First astronomer to come up with the Geocentric Theory

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo

Sun Centered model of the universe

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Absolutism

• Enlightenment

Which scientist made observations of the galaxy using a telescope?

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Bacon

Isaac Newton developed the Universal Law of Gravitation. This explained how objects move through the universe.

• True

• Flase

which scientist developed the Scientific Method?

• Francis Bacon

• Galileo

• Isaac Newton

• Copernicus

Females were excluded from the study of astronomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

• True

• False

Boyle’s Law described the properties of gases

• True

• False

Who was the best known female astronomer, discovered a comet and published books about her observations?

• Maria Winkelmann

• Christine di Pizan

• Marie Antoinette

Who explained that the heart is the starting point of blood flow in the human body.

• Margaret Cavendish

• Marie Antoinette

• William Harvey

• Robert Boyle