Scientific Revolution

Put the following historical period in order in which they began.

• Scientific Revolution

• Renaissance and Reformation

• Enlightenment

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

• Heliocentric Theory

• Geocentric Theory

True or False: The work of both Copernicus and Galileo were considered challenges to religious teachings at the time.

• True

• False

Who created the first telescope and is considered the Father of Experimental Science?

• Newton

• Bacon

• Descartes

• Galileo

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

Who stated that science should be approached systematically and that close observation was the only way to find the truth of all thing?

• Descartes

• Celsius

• Leeuwenhoek

• Bacon

• Galen

Which scientists emphasized that past science and

knowledge should be doubted until proven to be true rather than

accepted on faith.

• Torricelli

• Descartes

• Farenheit

• Vesalius

• Galileo

According to Medieval Catholic teaching, which was reliant on ancient teachings of Ptolemy and others, it was believed that the ___ was the center of the universe.

• sun

• moon

• Jupiter

• Earth

This is also called the Age of Reason which laid down the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution.

• Age of Enlightenment

• Ancient Period

• Medieval Period

The emergence of modern science happened during the Intellectual and Scientific Revolution during the 15th and 16th centuries.

• False

• True