Chapter 6 Lesson 8: The Scientific Revolution

Movement that questioned classical scientific ideas and Christian beliefs

• Universal Gravitation

• Scientific Revolution

• Scientific Method

• Heliocentric

Theory that states the stars, the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

• Scientific Method

• Heliocentric

• Scientific Revolution

• Universal Gravitation

Who challenged Ptolemy's theory of geocentric theory with the theory of heliocentric or sun centered?

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Aristotle

German astronomer that used mathematical laws to prove Copernicus's theories.

• William Harvey

• Johannes Kepler

• Aristotle

• Galileo

Church leaders forced Galileo to publicly declare that Copernicus's ideas were false because they went against official Church beliefs.

• True

• False

Who believed that all physical objects were affected by the same force - gravity. This theory is called the law of universal gravitation.

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

In 1628, who wrote a book about blood circulation?

• Isaac Newton

• Aristotle

• Galileo

• William Harvey

Anton van Leeuwenhoek built what invention that allows you to see bacteria in fluids?

• Telephone

• Telescope

• Microscope

• Stethoscope

A thermometer measures changes in temperature. Who invented the thermometer?

• Ptolemy

• Galileo

• Newton

• Copernicus

Invented the first thermometer that used mercury and created the first formal temperature measurement system.

• Galileo

• Gabriel Farenheit

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Aristotle