THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (MID 1600s - LATE 1800s)

True or False?

Enlightenment thinkers "turned the world upside down."

• False- Enlightenment thinkers followed all the rules of the church and society.

• True- Enlightenment thinkers asked questions about religion, science, and authority.

What was the basis of science in the Middle Ages?

• Ancient Greek & Roman texts

• The Bible

• Ancient Greek & Roman texts AND The Bible

Tradition & Church teachings during the Middle Ages were viewed as

• fact.

• fiction.

The Aristotle/ Ptolemy Universe was

• geocentric.

• heliocentric.

Polish monk who observed patterns of star and planet movement, discovered the Heliocentric Theory, waited until near death to publish his findings:

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

The major change in astronomy during the Scientific Revolution was that

• the people accepted the theory proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus that the sun rather than the Earth was the center of the universe.

• The people stuck with the church's view that the earth was the center of the universe.

Who is the person that studied planetary movements for years and recorded data backing up the theory?

• Johannes Kepler

• Ptolemy

• Tycho Brahe

Who was the German mathematician who went to Prague to become Brahe's assistant, realizing that the orbits of the planets were not circles but ellipses?

• Ptolemy

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

Who was the Italian scientist that improved the telescope; made observations about the planets, moons & sunspots; the church was very upset with him.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

Galileo wrote this to address the conflict between the Bible & the Heliocentric Theory; argued that the Bible must be interpreted in light of scientific knowledge and that the Bible should not be interpreted literally; began his troubles with the Catholic church.

• Letter to the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church

• Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

• Letter to King George