CH. 13-The Scientific Revolution

The Geocentric Theory placed _____ at the center of the universe.

• Jupiter

• the milky way galaxy

• the sun

• Earth

Both ancient Greek scientists and Muslim scholars were roots to the Scientific Revolution.

• true

• false

From _____, Muslim scholars adopted such mathematical concepts as the decimal system, the number zero, and the ten Arabic numerals commonly used today.

• China

• Persia

• India

• Saudi Arabia

_______ proposed the heliocentric theory, stating that the sun was the center of the universe, which he published in 1543.

• Aristotle

• Galileo

• Isaac Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Using more powerful telescopes, the Italian scientist ______ made observations that further supported Copernicus’s theory; he was put on trial, however.

• Galileo Galilei

• Rene Descartes

• Robert Hooke

• Issac Newton

_______ proposed the law of universal gravitation, which holds that all objects in the universe attract one another.

• Robert Boyle

• Isaac Newton

• Robert Hooke

• Johannes Kepler

The ancient Greeks were great thinkers, and they often based their scientific explanations on evidence rather than reasoning.

• true

• false

The invention of the ______ around 1590 allowed biologists to explore a new world and to observe things that had previously been invisible to them.

• barometer

• thermometer

• telescope

• microscope

In the early 1600s, Galileo invented the ________, an instrument that measures temperature.

• thermometer

• barometer

• magnetic compass

• microscope

German scientist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit's measurement scale showed water freezing at a temperature of ____ degrees and boiling at 212º.

• 22

• 0

• 32

• 44