The Scientific Revolution

All of the following are reasons why the Scientific Revolution occurred in Europe EXCEPT

• Goods brought from explored lands

• Renaissance scholarship

• The Catholic Churches support of new medicines and theories

• The closer role of craftsmen and scholars

Which activity was central to the process of learning that was developed during the Scientific Revolution?

• constructing laboratories

• explaining the past

• observing the physical universe

• analyzing government documents

Which of the following is a similarity between the work of scientists and philosophers associated with the Scientific Revolution and those associated with the Enlightenment?

• Focus on examinations of the natural laws that govern the universe

• Belief that only absolute monarchies could improve economic conditions

• Heavy reliance on medieval thinkers

• Extensive support from the Roman Catholic Church

Who argued that humans are not the masters of nature?

• Maria Merian

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Isaac Newton

• Margaret Cavendish

Who created the Scientific Method?

• Andreas Vesalius

• Francis Bacon

• Johannes Kepler

• Galen

Before the 1500's most scholars believed in the ______ Theory and that the earth was an ______ object located at the center of the universe.

• Geoconcentric, unattached

• Geocentric, immovable

• Heliocentric, immovable

• Heliocentric, inanimate

Who accurately described the individual organs and general structure of the human body?

• Andreas Vesalius

• Francis Bacon

• Galileo Galilei

• Aristotle

What was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution in Europe?

• The rise of the manorial system

• The application of reason to political thinking

• A gradual decline in the growth of cities

• An acceptance of the divine right theory

Which of the following was developed by Isaac Newton?

• The Heliocentric Theory

• The Scientific Method

• The Theory of Scientific Rationalism

• The Theory of Universal Gravitation

Who was the Italian astronomer who developed the telescope, which confirmed Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory?

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Andreas Vesalius