Scientific Revolution Crash Course Quiz

Who published 'On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres' and proposed the heliocentric theory?

• Isaac Newton

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

Which scientist was burned at the stake in 1600 for teaching Copernicus's heliocentric findings?

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• Giordano Bruno

• Nicholas Copernicus

Who was the first person to observe the moons of Jupiter and understand that the Milky Way was a collection of stars?

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicholas Copernicus

Which scientist was forced to recant in order to avoid execution by the Roman Inquisition?

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicholas Copernicus

Who developed the scientific method based on inductive reasoning?

• René Descartes

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

Who prioritized doubt and developed deductive reasoning with the famous phrase 'I think therefore I am'?

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• René Descartes

• Francis Bacon

Who quantified the major constructs of mass, inertia, force, velocity, and acceleration and produced the law of gravitation?

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• René Descartes

• Francis Bacon

Which European monarch started the royal Academy of Sciences in 1666?

• Philip II of Spain

• Frederick II of Prussia

• Queen Elizabeth I of England

• Louis XIV of France

Who traveled to Goa, India, and published 'Conversations on the Simples, Drugs and Medicinal Substances of India'?

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Garcia da Orta

Which scientist practiced alchemy and synthesized the universal laws of motion in his 'Principia Mathematica'?

• Garcia da Orta

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei