Renaissance

What was regarded as one of the key discoveries in the Renaissance Era?

• Motor Vehicles

• Printing Technology

• Scientific Knowledge

• Democracy

What is not the major theme of Renaissance humanism?

• Interest in human potential and achievement

• Revival of ancient Greek and Roman philosophies and arts

• Decline of institutional religion

• Kings and Queens are no longer influential in society

The birth of protestant reform begun when...

• Martin Luther opposed the churches for its corruption

• Soren Kierkegaard opposed the institutional church dogma

• Friedrich Nietzsche declared that God is Dead

• The French Revolution guillotined King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette

The theory that the earth revolves around the sun was found by...

• Ptolemy

• Giordano Bruno

• Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

All mathematical deductions should be verified by empirical observation is the saying of who?

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Oppenheimer

"God would have endowed men with microscopic eyes” is the saying of Galileo

• True

• False

This qualities concerns psychological experiences and have no counterparts in the physical world

• Secondary qualities

• Primary qualities

• Tertiary qualities

• Rational qualities

Occam's razor means that the simpler explanations with fewer assumptions tend to be better

• False

• True

The material world is governed by natural laws and there are no exceptions to this. Whose thought is this?

• Bacon

• Descartes

• Kepler

• Newton

While Galileo used induction approach, Bacon used deduction

• True

• False