Scientific Revolution Review

Which scientific revolutionary figure encouraged scientists of his time time to build their knowledge on the foundation of inductive reasoning, which moves from the specific to the general?

• Francis Bacon

• Rene Descartes

• Isaac Newton

• Aristotle

Which scientific revolutionary figure encouraged deductive reasoning, moving from the general to the specific?

• Francis Bacon

• Rene Descartes

• Isaac Newton

• Aristotle

Aristotle and Ptolemy  portrayed a _________ universe, one with Earth at the center of a system of concentric spheres, including the sun, circling around it.

• elliptical
• flat
• heliocentric
• geocentric

Medieval scholastic philosophers accepted the geocentric universe theory and in line with their Christian beliefs, taught that God and the souls of those who had been saved it existed beyond the outermost sphere of the system.

• True

• False

Who applied advanced mathematics to earlier astronomical observations to confirm the idea that the planets, including Earth, revolved around the sun-heliocentric view?

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

Who built built on Copernicus' work by analyzing precise measurements of planetary orbits, and found them to be elliptical rather than circular?

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• Galen

Who built and used a telescope to discover the moons that circled Jupiter as well as the craters on the Earth’s moon?

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

The Catholic Church rejected Galileo's work and found him guilty of heresy, and placed him under house arrest until his death.

• True

• False

Who discovered the principle of inertia when he argued that a body in

motion continues in motion forever unless deflected by an

external force?

• Sir Isaac Newton
• Aristotle
• Albert Einstein
• Galileo Galilei

Who published their proofs of a natural law demonstrating that gravity apply to objects on Earth and in space and was the force that held the planets in orbit around the Earth?

• Rene Descartes

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

• Ptolemy