Scientific Revolution Review

A period of time when a larger percent of people are involved in, interested in or impacted by developments in science

• Humanism

• Scientific Revolution

• Reformation

• Exploration

Which theory originally stated that the sun was the center of the solar system?

• Geocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

• Eurocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory (with planets orbiting in ellipses)

Galileo Galilei used his telescope to confirm which astronomer's theory about the solar system?

• Copernicus

• da Vinci

• Kepler

• Ptolemy

Who developed the Scientific Method?

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Sir Isaac Newton

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

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

During the scientific  revolution people started using experiments to test theories rather than just believing the ___________

• King
• Family
• Church
• Sir Salami 

2. Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon contributed to scientific development in the 17th Century by

• Making observations of planetary motion

• Perfecting the metric system

• Conducting experiments about gravitational forces

• Introducing logarithms

• Articulating theories of the scientific method

3. Galileo was found guilty of heresy and condemned by the Inquisition on the grounds that he

• Left the Roman Catholic church to become Protestant

• Used his telescope to explore the heavens

• Actively supported the Huguenot cause in France against Papal supremacy

• Advocated in writing that the Copernican system as truth

• Discovered the law of universal gravitation