STS Quiz 2

1. Denotes a drastic change in what is established, believed, and embraced by society.

• Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

• Copernican Revolution

• Pre-Copernican Revolution

Drew the first map of the world with the Earth taking the shape of a cylinder floating in the center of the universe.

• Pythagoras

• Anaximander

• Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

“Father of Modern Astronomy,”

• Ptolomy

• Johamm Muller

• Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

He constructed the telescope, and he was able to observe the movements of the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and its satellites.

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

Was a martyred Italian monk who spread Copernicus’s theory of a heliocentric and scientific universe.

• Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Boyle

• Giordano Bruno

• Rene Descartes

A leading botanist of the 18^th century whose binomial classification system is still being used today, subscribed to the Judeo-Christian version of creationism and saw their work as a mere representation of the unchanging order of life created by God.

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Erasmus Darwin

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Edmond Grant

At the age of 16, entered Edinburgh University to study medicine.

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Erasmus Darwin

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Edmond Grant

Father of Evolution

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Erasmus Darwin

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Edmond Grant

A leading figure of the mid-20th century in the field of evolutionary biology, who coined such a relationship into a term called the modern synthesis.

• John Gould

• Gregor Mendel

• Richard Owen

• Julian Huxley

Ideas on heredity into a joint framework.

• John Gould

• Gregor Mendel

• Richard Owen

• Julian Huxley