Enlightenment and Revolution

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 

• Catholic Church
• Roman Gods
• Baptist ministers
• The Queen of Spain

The procedure for testing theories that starts with a question

• Methods of Operation
• Scientific Method
• Procedural Operations
• Steps in a process 

Because he feared the Church, what Polish astronomer waited to publish his heliocentric theory until he was near death?

• Johannes Kepler
• Nicolaus Copernicus 
• Isaac Newton 
• Francis Bacon 

This diagram is representative of which theory that was supported by the Catholic Church? 

• Geocentric 
• Concentric
• Heliocentric 
• Geothermantic

Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:

• Electricity
• Motion and gravity
• Human biology
• Astronomy 

Which astronomer was tried for heresy and placed under house arrest because he argued that the universe was heliocentric?

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Newton 
• Galileo 

Which of the following best explains the effect of the Scientific Revolution on traditional religious beliefs?

• People now looked to religion to explain the world around them.
• People now looked to their kings to explain the world around them.
• People used reason and logic to explain the world
• Momney makes the world go round

This diagram is representative of which theory that was challenged by the Catholic Church

• Geocentric 
• Concentric 
• Heliocentric
•  Geothermantic

Another word for philosopher is...

• doctor

• thinker

• minister

• actor