The Scientific Revolution

Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued  

• That heaven did not exist
• That 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 Universe
• Was the biggest star
•  Had many moons

The Scientific Revolution challenged many medieval ideas about science. All of the following were astronomers during the Scientific Revolution except __.

• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Ptolemy
• Galileo Galilei
• Johannes Kepler

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

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst

A sudden and drastic change is a......................

• renaissance

• awakening

• revolution

• reformation

In Europe, education and science was heavily regulated by.... (before the Scientific Reformation)

• the Supreme Court

• the King

• the government

• the church

involves a hypothesis, experiments, and a conclusion

• the Renaissance

• calculus

• a term paper

• the scientific method

Who came up with the scientific method?

• Galileo

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Sir Issac Newton

• Copernicus

Most historians would agree that the Scientific Revolution

• supported the Catholic Church
• developed the roots of modern scientific thinking
• supported ancient Greek
• ended the Protestant Reformation

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

• observation
• guessing
• research
• what your friends say