Crash Course European History - The Scientific Revolution

Who was burned at the stake in 1600 for teaching Copernicus’s heliocentric findings?

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Giordano Bruno

• Tycho Brahe

What did Nicholas Copernicus publish just before his death in 1543?

• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

• On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

• Principia Mathematica

• Laws of Planetary Motion

What was the shape of the orbits of the planets according to Johannes Kepler?

• Hyperbolic

• Spiral

• Elliptical

• Circular

Which invention of Galileo Galilei dramatically improved human understanding of the universe?

• Barometer

• Microscope

• Telescope

• Thermometer

What did the Catholic Church finally acknowledge in 1992 regarding Galileo?

• His invention of the telescope

• His contributions to mathematics

• That the judgment against him had been wrong

• His discovery of Jupiter's moons

Who is considered the father of modern physics and modern science altogether?

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

What did William Harvey describe the heart as?

• A valve

• A muscle

• A pump

• An organ

Who laid out the process of reaching the truth through inductive reasoning?

• Tycho Brahe

• Francis Bacon

• René Descartes

• Johannes Kepler

What was the basis for the new scientific method as laid out by Francis Bacon?

• Deductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

• Heliocentric theory

• Alchemy

Which scientist synthesized new methodology and his own findings in his universal laws of motion?

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Isaac Newton