WH Unit#4.3

Which theory proposed by Copernicus, stated the sun, not the earth was the center of the universe?

• Heliocentric Theory

• Geocentric Theory

Which of the following ideas are associated with Isaac Newton?

• Laws of motion

• elliptical orbits

• gravity

• craters on the moon

• dark spots on the sun

What is the theory that the Earth was the center of the universe?

• Geocentric theory

• Heliocentric theory

• Aquacentric theory

______ was one of the first to argue that the SUN, NOT the Earth, was the center of the universe.

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Martin Luther

He studied the data collected by Tycho Brahe and used mathematics to show that the planets revolved around the sun in elliptical (oval) orbits instead of circles

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Martin Luther

• Rene Descartes

He developed the laws of planetary motion including the universal law of gravitation.

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Isaac Newton

• Rene Descartes

He discovered that Jupiter has moons and the sun as dark spots

• Johannes Kepler

• Francis Bacon

• Robert Boyle

• Galileo Galilei

advanced the field of medicine by dissecting cadavers

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Andreas Vesalius

Who discovered the heart pumps the blood?

• Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

• William Harvey

• Andreas Vesalius

• Ambroise Pare

Who stressed human reasoning and provable knowledge?

• Rene Descartes

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

• Robert Boyle