Scientific Revolution

During the Middle Ages scholars got their ideas about the world from the Bible and what other source?

• personal observation

• the teachings of Aristotle

• questioning traditional ideas

• carefully designed experiments

Greek rationalism, rediscovered by Renaissance scholars, argued what?

• personal observation was the only truth

• logic could reveal basic truths

• the word of the Bible was final

• clever debaters could argue any point

The work of which scholar began the Scientific Revolution?

• Newton

• Descartes

• Copernicus

• Galileo

How did Kepler add support to the heliocentric theory?

• He wrote mathematical laws that described how planets move

• He published a theory in a book that many people read

• He invented a device for seeing the night sky more accurately

• He showed that applying the theory would improve safety at sea

Galileo's discoveries about motion and his observations of the planets supported which theory?

• Hydrocentric

• geocentric

• Astrocentric

• Heliocentric

The Catholic Church objected to Galileo's work because the Church taught what?

• Earth was at the center of the universe

• Nobody except priests should study the heavens

• Non-religious teachings must be rejected without discussion

• Moons had been created for other planets as well as Earth

Newton's law of gravity explained what?

• Why the planet Venus appears to go through phases

• Why planets orbit the sun

• Why the surface of the moon is perfectly smooth

• Why the liquid metal mercury is affected by atmospheric pressure

Newton's Book, "Principia" or "Principle" described three laws of what?

• Logic

• Arithmetic

• Motion

• Mapmaking

Which of the following is an example of Step 1 of the Scientific method?

• Galileo drops balls of different weights from a tower

• Galileo observes that the balls land at the same time

• Galileo asks whether objects of different weights will fall at different speeds

• Galileo says he thinks two dropped balls will land at the same time

How did the Scientific Method change the way Europeans viewed the world in the 1500s?

• it showed everything could be explained with logic and reason

• it identified ways people could invent new things

• it allowed for the discovery of the exact measurements of the earth

• it provided the means to create new kinds of maps