Scientific Revolution & Age of Enlightenment

Match each definition in the left column with the correct term from the right column.

Who was one of the fathers of modern philosophy who deducted one unshakable truth, “I think, therefore I am?

• Robert Boyle

• Rene Descartes

• William Harvey

• Francis Bacon

Copernicus proposed which of the following?

• The sun travels around the Earth.

• The Earth travels around the sun.

Why didn't Johannes Kepler have to worry about being tried for heresy when he agreed with Copernicus' views of the universe?

Steps to find scientific truth through observation and experiments is called

• logic

• scientific method

Andreas Vesalius achieved his breakthrough

• illegally dissecting human bodies

• trying to transform metals into gold

Who established chemistry as a pure science?

• Robert Boyle

• William Harvey

Most experts rejected the work of Copernicus because it

• contradicted Ptolemy's ideas.

• was not based on experimentation.

Galileo had to withdraw his theories about the Earth's rotation because

• he found out he was wrong.

• the Church threatened him with death if he did not.

Which of the following stressed the use of experiments and observation in seeking knowledge?

• Bacon

• Aristotle