The Scientific Revolution

What factor sparked the start of the Scientific Revolution?

• the increasing popularity of Niccolo Machiavelli's writings

• the renewed interest in religious texts from Ancient Greece

• the scientific investigations of Leonardo da Vinci

• the humanist thought that developed in Europe during the Renaissance

The Catholic Church considered some thinkers of the Scientific Revolution to be heretics because they

• challenged established scientific knowledge

• questioned teachings made in biblical passages

• provided explanations for the workings of nature

• believed science was the highest moral authority

The work data of Tycho Brathe had the most direct influence on the work of

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• Leonardo da Vinci

The work of which scientist was most strongly condemned by the Catholic Church?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

Which view was criticized most strongly by the thinkers who led the Scientific Revolution?

• The main reason to investigate nature is to bring improvements to human life.

• The ancient Greeks and Romans understood the world better than modern Europeans.

• The values and morals that should govern human life differ from one society to another.

• The Bible provides adequate answers to all of humanity's questions about the natural world.

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

During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.

• Ptolemy
• Francis Bacon
• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus

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

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst

The idea that the sun is the center of the universe is the ____________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• solar
• sunny