Ch 03 L 1 Quiz The Scientific Revolution

__________ that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.

• Sun

• Moon

• Earth

• Pluto

How did new technology such as the telescope and new theories such as Pascal's Law lay the foundation of the Scientific Revolution?

• The government used them to make scientific laws

• Scientists used them to create new inventions and theories.

• Ordinary people used them in their everyday life.

• Philosophers used them to think about ancient Greek ideas.

Which of the following made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation?

• natural philosophers

• Greek thinkers

• the telescope and microscope

• the printing press

Many intellectuals of the 1500s and 1600s did not take Margaret Cavendish's work seriously because

• she was a woman
• her work lacked intellectual rigor
• she was not well-educated
• her ideas were considered radical

Why did Descartes decide to set aside everything he had learned and begin again?

• He doubted everything he had learned.

• Everything he had learned was wrong.

• Science was based on new information only.

• There were no science books.

Francis Bacon believed that scientists should

• use reasoning.

• develop their own scientific methods.

• study philosophy.

• rely on ancient authorities.

_________ was a mathematician who showed that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.

• Isaac Newton
• Galileo Galilei
• Albert Einstein
• Johannes Kepler

The Church attacked Galileo because he defended the system that said the ____ revolved around the sun.

• Moon
• Stars
• Planets
• Earth

Newton’s universal law of gravitation was important because it could explain all the ______ in the universe.

• events
• objects
• forces
• motion

Copernicus’s, Kepler’s, and Galileo’s theories were important because they all contributed to proving that the universe was centered around the ______.

• Sun
• Earth
• Mars
• Moon