13-1 A New View of the World

The series of events that led to the birth of modern science is called the ......

• Industrial Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

• Renaissance

• Reformation

............is the particular way of gaining knowledge about the world.

• arithmetic

• history

• science

• literature

The explanations scientists develop based on facts are called....

• theories

• guesses

• explanations

...................greatest contribution to science was the idea that people should observe the world carefully and draw logical conclusions about what they see.

• Ptolomy

• Aristotle

• Galilelo

• Newton

.............. was an ancient astronomer who studied the skies, recorded his observations, and offered theories to explain what he saw.

• Aristotle

• Ptolomy

• Galileo

• Newton

Aristotle, Ptolemy, and other Greek thinkers were ___________, people who looked at the world in a reasonable and logical way.

• rationalists

• reasonablists

• logistics

European scholars could study ancient Greek writings because the ______________ had translated them into Arabic which were later translated into Latin.

• Muslims

• Greeks

• Romans

• Egyptians

One development that helped lead to the Scientific revolution was the growth of __________ during the Renaissance.

• math

• humanism

• literature

• astronomy

__________________ was the forerunner to chemistry, many scientists studied natural substances and tried to unsuccessfully turn metals into gold.

• physics

• biology

• alchemy

• chemistry

Before the Scientific Revolution most educated people who studied the world took guidance from Greek writers and the__________

• Roman writers

• University professors

• farmers

• Catholic Church