SSWH13: Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

_______________ is the astronomer who believed the solar system was geocentric.

• Newton

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

A Geocentric solar system is ______________?

• Sun Centered

• Mars Centered

• Earth Centered

• has no center

_________________ believed the universe was helio-centered (sun-centered).

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Galileo

• Isaac Newton

• Ptolemy

A helio-centric solar system is one in which the planets

• have elliptical shaped orbits

• all revolve around the Earth

• all revolve around the sun

• orbit in a counterclockwise direction

_______________ used math and models to prove our solar system is helio-centric and that planetary orbits are elliptical in shape.

• Jean-Jaques Rousseau

• Claudis Ptolemy

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

Which astronomer is believed to be the first to see spots on the sun, mountains and valleys on the Earth's moon, rings around Saturn, and moons orbiting Jupiter?

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Newton

• Albert Einstein

Which astronomer was exiled from the Catholic Church for using math and his telescope to prove the heliocentric theory.

• Copernicus

• Hobbes

• Descartes

• Galileo

What invention was beneficial to astronomers in their discovery and study of the universe?

• telegraph

• telephone

• telescope

• microscope

I am known for the universal law of gravitation, the laws of motion, and demonstrating how scientific laws could explain all motion in the universe. Who am I?

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• Rene Descartes

• Frances Bacon

______________ is credited for being the creator of the scientific method which uses induction, experimentation, and interpretation of data to lead to a rational conclusion.

• Francis Bacon

• Maria Winkelmann

• Robert Boyle

• Margaret Cavendish

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart